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GE vs. BA, HON, LMT, TDG, GD, NOC, HEI, TDY, CW, and TXT

Should you be buying GE Aerospace stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GE Aerospace include Boeing (BA), Honeywell International (HON), Lockheed Martin (LMT), TransDigm Group (TDG), General Dynamics (GD), Northrop Grumman (NOC), HEICO (HEI), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Curtiss-Wright (CW), and Textron (TXT). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.

GE Aerospace vs.

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

Boeing presently has a consensus target price of $204.35, suggesting a potential upside of 0.47%. GE Aerospace has a consensus target price of $216.92, suggesting a potential downside of 5.75%. Given Boeing's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Boeing is more favorable than GE Aerospace.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Boeing
2 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
GE Aerospace
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.92

GE Aerospace received 82 more outperform votes than Boeing when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.43% of users gave GE Aerospace an outperform vote while only 69.90% of users gave Boeing an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
BoeingOutperform Votes
2058
69.90%
Underperform Votes
886
30.10%
GE AerospaceOutperform Votes
2140
75.43%
Underperform Votes
697
24.57%

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
Boeing-17.76% N/A -9.19%
GE Aerospace 14.31%22.19%3.66%

In the previous week, Boeing had 67 more articles in the media than GE Aerospace. MarketBeat recorded 132 mentions for Boeing and 65 mentions for GE Aerospace. GE Aerospace's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Boeing's score of 0.71 indicating that GE Aerospace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Boeing
59 Very Positive mention(s)
24 Positive mention(s)
18 Neutral mention(s)
8 Negative mention(s)
12 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
GE Aerospace
43 Very Positive mention(s)
9 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

64.8% of Boeing shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.8% of GE Aerospace shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Boeing shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of GE Aerospace shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Boeing pays an annual dividend of $8.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. GE Aerospace pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Boeing pays out -45.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GE Aerospace pays out 22.4% 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. GE Aerospace has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Boeing is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

GE Aerospace has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Boeing$69.44B2.21-$11.82B-$17.92-11.35
GE Aerospace$39.68B6.19$6.56B$6.4335.79

Boeing has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GE Aerospace has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

GE Aerospace beats Boeing on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GE vs. The Competition

MetricGE AerospaceAerospace & Defense IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$245.44B$23.35B$7.63B$19.30B
Dividend Yield0.63%2.61%4.58%3.83%
P/E Ratio38.4278.7823.1534.53
Price / Sales6.1987.0390.0034.84
Price / Cash36.0322.1726.9417.51
Price / Book12.635.163.974.69
Net Income$6.56B$536.05M$807.24M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-0.73%2.81%0.10%-2.43%
1 Month Performance18.82%10.37%10.55%6.27%
1 Year Performance39.27%61.84%26.18%5.78%

GE Aerospace Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GE
GE Aerospace
4.3428 of 5 stars
$230.16
-1.4%
$216.92
-5.8%
+43.1%$245.44B$39.68B38.42172,000Positive News
BA
Boeing
3.2655 of 5 stars
$204.82
+0.7%
$203.60
-0.6%
+9.2%$154.44B$69.44B-11.18156,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
HON
Honeywell International
4.3883 of 5 stars
$217.46
-0.3%
$242.23
+11.4%
+10.3%$139.76B$39.22B24.9797,000Trending News
Analyst Revision
LMT
Lockheed Martin
4.8373 of 5 stars
$451.81
-1.7%
$541.80
+19.9%
+0.2%$105.86B$71.81B20.30116,000Trending News
TDG
TransDigm Group
3.0286 of 5 stars
$1,399.26
-1.2%
$1,490.20
+6.5%
+6.1%$78.59B$8.39B49.3614,400Positive News
Insider Trade
GD
General Dynamics
4.6579 of 5 stars
$271.00
-0.7%
$293.00
+8.1%
-7.1%$72.74B$49.21B19.87106,500Trending News
Analyst Revision
NOC
Northrop Grumman
4.4818 of 5 stars
$458.86
-2.5%
$545.31
+18.8%
-0.4%$66.04B$40.37B16.1995,000Positive News
Dividend Increase
HEI
HEICO
2.5297 of 5 stars
$269.79
+0.5%
$267.36
-0.9%
+23.8%$37.49B$3.99B73.716,500Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
TDY
Teledyne Technologies
3.6027 of 5 stars
$490.06
-0.6%
$542.50
+10.7%
+19.2%$22.96B$5.77B28.4414,700Positive News
CW
Curtiss-Wright
3.4918 of 5 stars
$403.24
+2.0%
$377.43
-6.4%
+48.2%$15.19B$3.21B38.228,100Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
TXT
Textron
3.7796 of 5 stars
$75.36
-1.5%
$87.70
+16.4%
-17.5%$13.61B$13.87B17.4834,000Positive News

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