GE Aerospace (GE) Competitors

GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE) and Boeing (NYSE:BA) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.

Do analysts prefer GE or BA?

GE Aerospace presently has a consensus price target of $216.92, indicating a potential upside of 6.48%. Boeing has a consensus price target of $200.90, indicating a potential upside of 9.78%. Given Boeing's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Boeing is more favorable than GE Aerospace.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GE Aerospace	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	12 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Boeing	1 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	16 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83

Is GE or BA a better dividend stock?

GE Aerospace pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Boeing pays an annual dividend of $8.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. GE Aerospace pays out 22.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Boeing pays out -45.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Boeing is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has more risk & volatility, GE or BA?

GE Aerospace has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boeing has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer GE or BA?

In the previous week, Boeing had 58 more articles in the media than GE Aerospace. MarketBeat recorded 116 mentions for Boeing and 58 mentions for GE Aerospace. GE Aerospace's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Boeing's score of 0.53 indicating that GE Aerospace is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
GE Aerospace	36 Very Positive mention(s)	6 Positive mention(s)	14 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Boeing	45 Very Positive mention(s)	13 Positive mention(s)	29 Neutral mention(s)	15 Negative mention(s)	8 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has better valuation and earnings, GE or BA?

GE Aerospace has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Boeing. Boeing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GE Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GE Aerospace	$39.68B	5.47	$6.56B	$6.43	31.68
Boeing	$69.44B	1.99	-$11.82B	-$17.92	-10.21

Is GE or BA more profitable?

GE Aerospace has a net margin of 14.31% compared to Boeing's net margin of -17.76%. GE Aerospace's return on equity of 22.19% beat Boeing's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GE Aerospace	14.31%	22.19%	3.66%
Boeing	-17.76%	N/A	-9.19%

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of GE or BA?

74.8% of GE Aerospace shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of Boeing shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of GE Aerospace shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Boeing shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in GE or BA?

GE Aerospace received 87 more outperform votes than Boeing when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.46% of users gave GE Aerospace an outperform vote while only 70.00% of users gave Boeing an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
GE Aerospace	Outperform Votes 2140 75.46%	Underperform Votes 696 24.54%
Boeing	Outperform Votes 2053 70.00%	Underperform Votes 880 30.00%

Summary

GE Aerospace beats Boeing on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.