PKE vs. CTS, NEON, MEI, KTCC, JBL, TRMB, FN, SANM, TTMI, and PLXS
Should you be buying Park Aerospace stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park Aerospace include CTS (CTS), Neonode (NEON), Methode Electronics (MEI), Key Tronic (KTCC), Jabil (JBL), Trimble (TRMB), Fabrinet (FN), Sanmina (SANM), TTM Technologies (TTMI), and Plexus (PLXS). These companies are all part of the "electronic manufacturing services" industry.
Park Aerospace vs. Its Competitors
CTS (NYSE:CTS) and Park Aerospace (NYSE:PKE) are both small-cap electronic manufacturing services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
CTS has higher revenue and earnings than Park Aerospace. CTS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CTS had 6 more articles in the media than Park Aerospace. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for CTS and 1 mentions for Park Aerospace. Park Aerospace's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat CTS's score of 0.59 indicating that Park Aerospace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CTS pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Park Aerospace pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. CTS pays out 7.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Park Aerospace pays out 147.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
CTS has a net margin of 12.32% compared to Park Aerospace's net margin of 10.98%. CTS's return on equity of 12.31% beat Park Aerospace's return on equity.
96.9% of CTS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.8% of Park Aerospace shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of CTS shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.3% of Park Aerospace shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CTS has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Park Aerospace has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CTS beats Park Aerospace on 11 of the 16 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 8/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
