PKE vs. NEON, MEI, KTCC, JBL, TRMB, FN, SANM, TTMI, PLXS, and MRCY
Should you be buying Park Aerospace stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park Aerospace include Neonode (NEON), Methode Electronics (MEI), Key Tronic (KTCC), Jabil (JBL), Trimble (TRMB), Fabrinet (FN), Sanmina (SANM), TTM Technologies (TTMI), Plexus (PLXS), and Mercury Systems (MRCY). These companies are all part of the "electronic manufacturing services" industry.
Park Aerospace vs. Its Competitors
Park Aerospace (NYSE:PKE) and Neonode (NASDAQ:NEON) are both small-cap electronic manufacturing services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Park Aerospace has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Neonode has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Park Aerospace has higher revenue and earnings than Neonode. Neonode is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.8% of Park Aerospace shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.6% of Neonode shares are held by institutional investors. 10.6% of Park Aerospace shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.9% of Neonode 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.
In the previous week, Park Aerospace and Park Aerospace both had 2 articles in the media. Park Aerospace's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Neonode's score of 0.25 indicating that Park Aerospace is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Park Aerospace has a net margin of 9.48% compared to Neonode's net margin of -217.85%. Park Aerospace's return on equity of 7.21% beat Neonode's return on equity.
Neonode has a consensus target price of $16.50, suggesting a potential downside of 37.25%. Given Neonode's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Neonode is more favorable than Park Aerospace.
Summary
Park Aerospace beats Neonode on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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.
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This page (NYSE:PKE) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
