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LMT vs. GE, BA, HON, TDG, GD, NOC, HEI, TDY, CW, and TXT

Should you be buying Lockheed Martin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lockheed Martin include GE Aerospace (GE), Boeing (BA), Honeywell International (HON), TransDigm Group (TDG), General Dynamics (GD), Northrop Grumman (NOC), HEICO (HEI), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Curtiss-Wright (CW), and Textron (TXT). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.

Lockheed Martin vs.

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.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
GE Aerospace$39.68B6.19$6.56B$6.4335.79
Lockheed Martin$71.81B1.53$5.34B$23.1520.32

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.

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 Aerospace14.31% 22.19% 3.66%
Lockheed Martin 7.51%101.47%12.09%

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.

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
GE AerospaceOutperform Votes
2140
75.43%
Underperform Votes
697
24.57%
Lockheed MartinOutperform Votes
797
58.73%
Underperform Votes
560
41.27%

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.

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

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.

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LMT vs. The Competition

MetricLockheed MartinGuided missiles & space vehicles & parts IndustryAerospace SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$110.21B$25.66B$21.57B$19.30B
Dividend Yield2.84%2.84%1.19%3.84%
P/E Ratio21.13124.3948.4734.53
Price / Sales1.537.775.7834.83
Price / Cash12.2728.6929.9017.51
Price / Book17.486.185.954.69
Net Income$5.34B$1.01B$326.81M$1.02B
7 Day Performance1.33%-2.29%-0.04%-1.74%
1 Month Performance1.88%14.83%19.79%7.50%
1 Year Performance0.15%129.14%30.58%4.15%

Lockheed Martin Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LMT
Lockheed Martin
4.8408 of 5 stars
$470.37
+0.0%
$541.80
+15.2%
+0.2%$110.18B$71.81B21.13116,000Trending News
GE
GE Aerospace
4.3428 of 5 stars
$233.39
+0.7%
$216.92
-7.1%
+43.1%$248.67B$39.68B38.93172,000Positive News
BA
Boeing
3.2655 of 5 stars
$205.29
-0.3%
$204.35
-0.5%
+9.2%$154.55B$69.44B-11.19156,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
HON
Honeywell International
4.3894 of 5 stars
$223.54
+0.3%
$245.23
+9.7%
+10.3%$143.64B$39.22B25.6697,000Trending News
Analyst Revision
TDG
TransDigm Group
3.0286 of 5 stars
$1,429.10
+0.4%
$1,490.20
+4.3%
+6.1%$80.30B$8.39B50.4314,400Positive News
Insider Trade
GD
General Dynamics
4.6573 of 5 stars
$281.91
+0.4%
$293.00
+3.9%
-7.1%$75.65B$49.21B20.66106,500Trending News
Analyst Revision
NOC
Northrop Grumman
4.4853 of 5 stars
$472.30
-0.2%
$545.31
+15.5%
-0.4%$68.01B$40.37B16.6795,000Positive News
Dividend Increase
HEI
HEICO
2.5297 of 5 stars
$279.93
+0.4%
$267.36
-4.5%
+23.8%$38.89B$3.99B76.476,500Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
TDY
Teledyne Technologies
3.6009 of 5 stars
$497.08
-0.4%
$542.50
+9.1%
+19.2%$23.29B$5.77B28.8414,700Positive News
CW
Curtiss-Wright
3.4918 of 5 stars
$413.76
+0.9%
$377.43
-8.8%
+48.2%$15.58B$3.21B39.228,100Positive News
Analyst Forecast
TXT
Textron
3.7814 of 5 stars
$76.70
+0.0%
$87.70
+14.3%
-17.5%$13.82B$13.87B17.7734,000Positive News

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This page (NYSE:LMT) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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