HII vs. ESLT, CAE, CW, HXL, AJRD, SPR, LDOS, MOG.B, ERJ, and FTAI
Should you be buying Huntington Ingalls Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntington Ingalls Industries include Elbit Systems (ESLT), CAE (CAE), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Hexcel (HXL), Aerojet Rocketdyne (AJRD), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), Leidos (LDOS), Moog (MOG.B), Embraer (ERJ), and FTAI Aviation (FTAI). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Huntington Ingalls Industries vs.
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) and Elbit Systems (NASDAQ:ESLT) are both mid-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has a net margin of 5.42% compared to Elbit Systems' net margin of 3.61%. Huntington Ingalls Industries' return on equity of 18.81% beat Elbit Systems' return on equity.
Huntington Ingalls Industries pays an annual dividend of $4.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Elbit Systems pays an annual dividend of $1.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Huntington Ingalls Industries pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Elbit Systems pays out 37.3% 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. Huntington Ingalls Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Huntington Ingalls Industries currently has a consensus target price of $251.22, suggesting a potential upside of 21.47%. Given Huntington Ingalls Industries' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Huntington Ingalls Industries is more favorable than Elbit Systems.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elbit Systems has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Elbit Systems had 1 more articles in the media than Huntington Ingalls Industries. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Elbit Systems and 7 mentions for Huntington Ingalls Industries. Elbit Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Huntington Ingalls Industries' score of 0.20 indicating that Elbit Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Huntington Ingalls Industries received 160 more outperform votes than Elbit Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.10% of users gave Elbit Systems an outperform vote while only 59.11% of users gave Huntington Ingalls Industries an outperform vote.
86.6% of Huntington Ingalls Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.8% of Elbit Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Huntington Ingalls Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Elbit Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Elbit Systems. Huntington Ingalls Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elbit Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Huntington Ingalls Industries beats Elbit Systems on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Huntington Ingalls Industries Competitors List
