Lockheed Martin (LMT) Competitors

GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, GE or LMT?

GE Aerospace has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GE Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GE Aerospace	$39.68B	6.19	$6.56B	$6.43	35.79
Lockheed Martin	$71.81B	1.53	$5.34B	$23.15	20.32

Is GE or LMT a better dividend stock?

GE Aerospace pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Lockheed Martin pays an annual dividend of $13.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. GE Aerospace pays out 22.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lockheed Martin pays out 57.0% 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 raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Lockheed Martin has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years. Lockheed Martin is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Is GE or LMT more profitable?

GE Aerospace has a net margin of 14.31% compared to Lockheed Martin's net margin of 7.51%. Lockheed Martin's return on equity of 101.47% beat GE Aerospace's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GE Aerospace	14.31%	22.19%	3.66%
Lockheed Martin	7.51%	101.47%	12.09%

Which has more volatility and risk, GE or LMT?

GE Aerospace has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lockheed Martin has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer GE or LMT?

GE Aerospace received 1343 more outperform votes than Lockheed Martin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.43% of users gave GE Aerospace an outperform vote while only 58.73% of users gave Lockheed Martin an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
GE Aerospace	Outperform Votes 2140 75.43%	Underperform Votes 697 24.57%
Lockheed Martin	Outperform Votes 797 58.73%	Underperform Votes 560 41.27%

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of GE or LMT?

74.8% of GE Aerospace shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.2% of Lockheed Martin shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of GE Aerospace shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Lockheed Martin shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate GE or LMT?

GE Aerospace presently has a consensus price target of $216.92, suggesting a potential downside of 5.75%. Lockheed Martin has a consensus price target of $541.80, suggesting a potential upside of 15.18%. Given Lockheed Martin's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lockheed Martin is more favorable than GE Aerospace.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GE Aerospace	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.92
Lockheed Martin	0 Sell rating(s)	9 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.53

Does the media refer more to GE or LMT?

In the previous week, GE Aerospace and GE Aerospace both had 62 articles in the media. GE Aerospace's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Lockheed Martin's score of 0.95 indicating that GE Aerospace is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
GE Aerospace	40 Very Positive mention(s)	9 Positive mention(s)	10 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Lockheed Martin	41 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	13 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

GE Aerospace beats Lockheed Martin on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.