TXT vs. HEI, TDY, CW, HII, HXL, AVAV, SPR, KTOS, AIR, and TGI
Should you be buying Textron stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Textron include HEICO (HEI), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Hexcel (HXL), AeroVironment (AVAV), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), AAR (AIR), and Triumph Group (TGI). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
HEICO (NYSE:HEI) and Textron (NYSE:TXT) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
HEICO has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Textron has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Textron has higher revenue and earnings than HEICO. Textron is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HEICO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HEICO presently has a consensus price target of $220.33, suggesting a potential downside of 0.65%. Textron has a consensus price target of $99.29, suggesting a potential upside of 13.33%. Given HEICO's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Textron is more favorable than HEICO.
Textron received 111 more outperform votes than HEICO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.02% of users gave Textron an outperform vote while only 66.89% of users gave HEICO an outperform vote.
27.1% of HEICO shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.0% of Textron shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of HEICO shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Textron shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HEICO has a net margin of 12.62% compared to HEICO's net margin of 6.75%. HEICO's return on equity of 16.30% beat Textron's return on equity.
In the previous week, HEICO had 19 more articles in the media than Textron. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for HEICO and 9 mentions for Textron. Textron's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat HEICO's score of 0.55 indicating that HEICO is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HEICO pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Textron pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. HEICO pays out 6.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Textron pays out 1.7% 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. HEICO has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Textron is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Textron beats HEICO on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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