DCO vs. EH, ATRO, PKE, AIRI, PRZO, TDG, ESLT, LOAR, SPR, and KTOS
Should you be buying Ducommun stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ducommun include EHang (EH), Astronics (ATRO), Park Aerospace (PKE), Air Industries Group (AIRI), ParaZero Technologies (PRZO), TransDigm Group (TDG), Elbit Systems (ESLT), Loar (LOAR), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Ducommun (NYSE:DCO) and EHang (NASDAQ:EH) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
92.2% of Ducommun shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of EHang shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.8% of Ducommun shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 39.6% of EHang 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.
Ducommun presently has a consensus price target of $65.20, indicating a potential upside of 12.45%. EHang has a consensus price target of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 82.39%. Given EHang's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe EHang is more favorable than Ducommun.
Ducommun has higher revenue and earnings than EHang. EHang is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ducommun, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ducommun has a net margin of 2.29% compared to EHang's net margin of -176.72%. Ducommun's return on equity of 6.06% beat EHang's return on equity.
Ducommun received 600 more outperform votes than EHang when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.43% of users gave EHang an outperform vote while only 67.45% of users gave Ducommun an outperform vote.
Ducommun has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EHang has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ducommun and Ducommun both had 2 articles in the media. Ducommun's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat EHang's score of 0.50 indicating that Ducommun is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ducommun beats EHang on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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