PKE vs. ATRO, DCO, EH, ASLE, SPIR, RDW, BAER, EVTL, VTSI, and TATT
Should you be buying Park Aerospace stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park Aerospace include Astronics (ATRO), Ducommun (DCO), EHang (EH), AerSale (ASLE), Spire Global (SPIR), Redwire (RDW), Bridger Aerospace Group (BAER), Vertical Aerospace (EVTL), VirTra (VTSI), and TAT Technologies (TATT). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Astronics (NASDAQ:ATRO) and Park Aerospace (NYSE:PKE) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Astronics presently has a consensus price target of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.12%. Given Park Aerospace's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Astronics is more favorable than Park Aerospace.
Astronics received 170 more outperform votes than Park Aerospace when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.84% of users gave Astronics an outperform vote while only 60.37% of users gave Park Aerospace an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Astronics and Astronics both had 1 articles in the media. Park Aerospace's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Astronics' score of 0.00 indicating that Astronics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Park Aerospace has a net margin of 17.87% compared to Park Aerospace's net margin of -3.83%. Astronics' return on equity of 6.44% beat Park Aerospace's return on equity.
Park Aerospace has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Astronics. Astronics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
56.7% of Astronics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.8% of Park Aerospace shares are held by institutional investors. 10.8% of Astronics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Park Aerospace shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Astronics has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Park Aerospace has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Park Aerospace beats Astronics on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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