HXL vs. TDY, TXT, CW, HII, AVAV, SPR, KTOS, AIR, TGI, and ATRO
Should you be buying Hexcel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hexcel include Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), AeroVironment (AVAV), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), AAR (AIR), Triumph Group (TGI), and Astronics (ATRO). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
Hexcel (NYSE:HXL) and Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY) are both aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
Hexcel has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teledyne Technologies has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Hexcel received 174 more outperform votes than Teledyne Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.49% of users gave Teledyne Technologies an outperform vote while only 64.53% of users gave Hexcel an outperform vote.
95.5% of Hexcel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Hexcel shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Teledyne Technologies has a net margin of 15.86% compared to Hexcel's net margin of 5.78%. Teledyne Technologies' return on equity of 10.27% beat Hexcel's return on equity.
Teledyne Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Hexcel. Teledyne Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hexcel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hexcel presently has a consensus target price of $75.71, suggesting a potential upside of 18.94%. Teledyne Technologies has a consensus target price of $474.57, suggesting a potential upside of 12.58%. Given Hexcel's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Hexcel is more favorable than Teledyne Technologies.
In the previous week, Teledyne Technologies had 28 more articles in the media than Hexcel. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Teledyne Technologies and 12 mentions for Hexcel. Teledyne Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Hexcel's score of -0.01 indicating that Teledyne Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Teledyne Technologies beats Hexcel on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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