HEI vs. LDOS, TDY, LHX, HII, CW, ESLT, TDG, GD, BA, and LMT
Should you be buying HEICO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HEICO include Leidos (LDOS), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Elbit Systems (ESLT), TransDigm Group (TDG), General Dynamics (GD), Boeing (BA), and Lockheed Martin (LMT). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Leidos (NYSE:LDOS) and HEICO (NYSE:HEI) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
Leidos has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HEICO has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HEICO has a net margin of 13.11% compared to HEICO's net margin of 2.04%. HEICO's return on equity of 25.66% beat Leidos' return on equity.
Leidos pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. HEICO pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Leidos pays out 65.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HEICO pays out 6.5% 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. Leidos has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and HEICO has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Leidos currently has a consensus price target of $141.17, suggesting a potential downside of 1.08%. HEICO has a consensus price target of $204.50, suggesting a potential downside of 2.67%. Given HEICO's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Leidos is more favorable than HEICO.
HEICO has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Leidos. Leidos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HEICO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Leidos received 153 more outperform votes than HEICO when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave HEICO an outperform vote while only 63.91% of users gave Leidos an outperform vote.
76.1% of Leidos shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of HEICO shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Leidos shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of HEICO shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Leidos had 44 more articles in the media than HEICO. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for Leidos and 4 mentions for HEICO. HEICO's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Leidos' score of -0.03 indicating that Leidos is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Leidos beats HEICO on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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