ATRO vs. DCO, PKE, EH, LUNR, SPCE, ASLE, RDW, SPIR, BAER, and EVTL
Should you be buying Astronics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Astronics include Ducommun (DCO), Park Aerospace (PKE), EHang (EH), Intuitive Machines (LUNR), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), AerSale (ASLE), Redwire (RDW), Spire Global (SPIR), Bridger Aerospace Group (BAER), and Vertical Aerospace (EVTL). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Astronics (NASDAQ:ATRO) and Ducommun (NYSE:DCO) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends and valuation.
Ducommun has a net margin of 2.10% compared to Astronics' net margin of -3.83%. Ducommun's return on equity of 5.94% beat Astronics' return on equity.
Astronics currently has a consensus price target of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.04%. Ducommun has a consensus price target of $62.80, indicating a potential upside of 14.04%. Given Astronics' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Astronics is more favorable than Ducommun.
In the previous week, Astronics had 4 more articles in the media than Ducommun. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Astronics and 4 mentions for Ducommun. Ducommun's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Astronics' score of 0.11 indicating that Ducommun is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Astronics has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ducommun has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ducommun received 232 more outperform votes than Astronics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.49% of users gave Ducommun an outperform vote while only 65.73% of users gave Astronics an outperform vote.
56.7% of Astronics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of Ducommun shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.9% of Astronics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.8% of Ducommun shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ducommun has higher revenue and earnings than Astronics. Astronics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ducommun, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ducommun beats Astronics on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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