HEI.A vs. HEI, LDOS, TDY, TXT, CW, HII, ESLT, FTAI, CAE, and HXL
Should you be buying HEICO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HEICO include HEICO (HEI), Leidos (LDOS), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Elbit Systems (ESLT), FTAI Aviation (FTAI), CAE (CAE), and Hexcel (HXL). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
HEICO (NYSE:HEI) and HEICO (NYSE:HEI.A) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
HEICO presently has a consensus target price of $206.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.68%. Given HEICO's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe HEICO is more favorable than HEICO.
HEICO received 278 more outperform votes than HEICO when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.41% of users gave HEICO an outperform vote while only 66.71% of users gave HEICO an outperform vote.
In the previous week, HEICO had 4 more articles in the media than HEICO. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for HEICO and 0 mentions for HEICO. HEICO's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat HEICO's score of 0.00 indicating that HEICO is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HEICO pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. HEICO pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. HEICO pays out 6.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HEICO pays out 6.5% 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. HEICO has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
27.1% of HEICO shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.0% of HEICO shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of HEICO shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of HEICO shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HEICO has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HEICO has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HEICO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HEICO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
HEICO beats HEICO on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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