QQ vs. AXON, COB, BOE, GEC, CHG, SNR, AVON, CHRT, VEL, and HARL
Should you be buying QinetiQ Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QinetiQ Group include Axon Enterprise (AXON), Cobham (COB), Boeing (BOE), General Electric (GEC), Chemring Group (CHG), Senior (SNR), Avon Protection (AVON), Cohort (CHRT), Velocity Composites (VEL), and Harland & Wolff Group (HARL). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
Axon Enterprise (LON:AXON) and QinetiQ Group (LON:QQ) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
QinetiQ Group has a net margin of 7.30% compared to QinetiQ Group's net margin of 0.00%. Axon Enterprise's return on equity of 14.74% beat QinetiQ Group's return on equity.
QinetiQ Group has a consensus target price of GBX 439.25, suggesting a potential upside of 3.74%.
QinetiQ Group received 376 more outperform votes than Axon Enterprise when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.95% of users gave QinetiQ Group an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Axon Enterprise an outperform vote.
62.3% of QinetiQ Group shares are held by institutional investors. 12.0% of QinetiQ Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
QinetiQ Group has higher revenue and earnings than Axon Enterprise.
In the previous week, QinetiQ Group had 9 more articles in the media than Axon Enterprise. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for QinetiQ Group and 1 mentions for Axon Enterprise. Axon Enterprise's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat QinetiQ Group's score of 0.00 indicating that QinetiQ Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
QinetiQ Group beats Axon Enterprise on 11 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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