TDG vs. NOC, GD, LHX, BA, HEI, LMT, TDY, TXT, LDOS, and RTX
Should you be buying TransDigm Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TransDigm Group include Northrop Grumman (NOC), General Dynamics (GD), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), Boeing (BA), HEICO (HEI), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Leidos (LDOS), and RTX (RTX). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) and TransDigm Group (NYSE:TDG) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking and risk.
TransDigm Group received 140 more outperform votes than Northrop Grumman when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.55% of users gave TransDigm Group an outperform vote while only 62.39% of users gave Northrop Grumman an outperform vote.
83.4% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.8% of TransDigm Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of TransDigm Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Northrop Grumman has a beta of 0.35, indicating that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TransDigm Group has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TransDigm Group has a net margin of 20.80% compared to TransDigm Group's net margin of 5.38%. TransDigm Group's return on equity of 24.09% beat Northrop Grumman's return on equity.
Northrop Grumman has higher revenue and earnings than TransDigm Group. Northrop Grumman is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TransDigm Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Northrop Grumman had 20 more articles in the media than TransDigm Group. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Northrop Grumman and 23 mentions for TransDigm Group. Northrop Grumman's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat TransDigm Group's score of 0.82 indicating that TransDigm Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Northrop Grumman presently has a consensus price target of $503.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.69%. TransDigm Group has a consensus price target of $1,170.27, suggesting a potential downside of 7.06%. Given TransDigm Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Northrop Grumman is more favorable than TransDigm Group.
Summary
TransDigm Group beats Northrop Grumman on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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