SIF vs. RTX, HON, HEI, TATT, SPCE, ISSC, BAER, VTSI, OPXS, and AZ
Should you be buying SIFCO Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SIFCO Industries include RTX (RTX), Honeywell International (HON), HEICO (HEI), TAT Technologies (TATT), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), Innovative Solutions and Support (ISSC), Bridger Aerospace Group (BAER), VirTra (VTSI), Optex Systems (OPXS), and A2Z Smart Technologies (AZ).
RTX (NYSE:RTX) and SIFCO Industries (NYSE:SIF) are both aerospace companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.
86.5% of RTX shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.2% of SIFCO Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of RTX shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.1% of SIFCO Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
RTX has a net margin of 3.12% compared to SIFCO Industries' net margin of -7.92%. RTX's return on equity of 11.37% beat SIFCO Industries' return on equity.
RTX received 52 more outperform votes than SIFCO Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave SIFCO Industries an outperform vote while only 55.50% of users gave RTX an outperform vote.
RTX has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SIFCO Industries has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RTX presently has a consensus target price of $153.47, suggesting a potential upside of 27.87%. Given RTX's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe RTX is more favorable than SIFCO Industries.
RTX has higher revenue and earnings than SIFCO Industries. SIFCO Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RTX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, RTX had 35 more articles in the media than SIFCO Industries. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for RTX and 1 mentions for SIFCO Industries. RTX's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat SIFCO Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that RTX is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
RTX beats SIFCO Industries on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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