LDOS vs. TXT, TDY, HII, CW, ESLT, FTAI, HEI, CAE, DRS, and HXL
Should you be buying Leidos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leidos include Textron (TXT), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Elbit Systems (ESLT), FTAI Aviation (FTAI), HEICO (HEI), CAE (CAE), Leonardo DRS (DRS), and Hexcel (HXL). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Textron (NYSE:TXT) and Leidos (NYSE:LDOS) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
Textron has a net margin of 6.73% compared to Textron's net margin of 1.29%. Textron's return on equity of 22.92% beat Leidos' return on equity.
Textron pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Leidos pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Textron pays out 1.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Leidos pays out 107.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Leidos has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Leidos is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Textron has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leidos has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
86.0% of Textron shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.1% of Leidos shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Textron shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Leidos shares are held 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.
Textron has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Leidos. Textron is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leidos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Textron had 37 more articles in the media than Leidos. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Textron and 5 mentions for Leidos. Leidos' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Textron's score of 0.65 indicating that Textron is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Leidos received 35 more outperform votes than Textron when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.95% of users gave Textron an outperform vote while only 63.83% of users gave Leidos an outperform vote.
Textron currently has a consensus target price of $93.63, indicating a potential upside of 10.26%. Leidos has a consensus target price of $132.42, indicating a potential upside of 1.95%. Given Leidos' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Textron is more favorable than Leidos.
Summary
Textron beats Leidos on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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