JOBY vs. AVAV, EVEX, ACHR, LILM, EVTL, PONO, HOVR, DPRO, AWIN, and MOB
Should you be buying Joby Aviation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Joby Aviation include AeroVironment (AVAV), EVE (EVEX), Archer Aviation (ACHR), Lilium (LILM), Vertical Aerospace (EVTL), Pono Capital (PONO), New Horizon Aircraft (HOVR), Draganfly (DPRO), AERWINS Technologies (AWIN), and Mobilicom (MOB). These companies are all part of the "aircraft" industry.
AeroVironment (NASDAQ:AVAV) and Joby Aviation (NYSE:JOBY) are both mid-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
AeroVironment presently has a consensus target price of $140.20, indicating a potential downside of 30.69%. Joby Aviation has a consensus target price of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 50.30%. Given AeroVironment's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Joby Aviation is more favorable than AeroVironment.
AeroVironment received 419 more outperform votes than Joby Aviation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.21% of users gave AeroVironment an outperform vote while only 24.00% of users gave Joby Aviation an outperform vote.
86.4% of AeroVironment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Joby Aviation shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of AeroVironment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.4% of Joby Aviation shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Joby Aviation has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Joby Aviation's net margin of -15.14%. Joby Aviation's return on equity of 13.93% beat AeroVironment's return on equity.
AeroVironment has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Joby Aviation has a beta of 2, indicating that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AeroVironment had 5 more articles in the media than Joby Aviation. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for AeroVironment and 5 mentions for Joby Aviation. Joby Aviation's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat AeroVironment's score of 0.73 indicating that AeroVironment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AeroVironment has higher revenue and earnings than Joby Aviation. AeroVironment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Joby Aviation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
AeroVironment beats Joby Aviation on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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