HEI vs. LMT, BA, GD, TDG, NOC, TDY, TXT, CW, HII, and HXL
Should you be buying HEICO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HEICO include Lockheed Martin (LMT), Boeing (BA), General Dynamics (GD), TransDigm Group (TDG), Northrop Grumman (NOC), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), and Hexcel (HXL). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) and HEICO (NYSE:HEI) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Lockheed Martin has higher revenue and earnings than HEICO. Lockheed Martin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HEICO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lockheed Martin presently has a consensus target price of $485.40, suggesting a potential upside of 3.20%. HEICO has a consensus target price of $220.33, suggesting a potential downside of 0.65%. Given HEICO's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lockheed Martin is more favorable than HEICO.
HEICO has a net margin of 12.62% compared to HEICO's net margin of 9.73%. HEICO's return on equity of 85.96% beat Lockheed Martin's return on equity.
74.2% of Lockheed Martin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of HEICO shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Lockheed Martin shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of HEICO shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, HEICO had 13 more articles in the media than Lockheed Martin. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for HEICO and 15 mentions for Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat HEICO's score of 0.67 indicating that HEICO is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lockheed Martin received 267 more outperform votes than HEICO when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.89% of users gave HEICO an outperform vote while only 58.87% of users gave Lockheed Martin an outperform vote.
Lockheed Martin has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HEICO has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lockheed Martin pays an annual dividend of $12.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. HEICO pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Lockheed Martin pays out 46.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HEICO pays out 6.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Lockheed Martin has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years and HEICO has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Lockheed Martin is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
HEICO beats Lockheed Martin on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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