SIF vs. AIRI, AZ, ASTC, ASTR, SIDU, HOVR, OPXS, TATT, HEI, and PRZO
Should you be buying SIFCO Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SIFCO Industries include Air Industries Group (AIRI), A2Z Smart Technologies (AZ), Astrotech (ASTC), Astra Space (ASTR), Sidus Space (SIDU), New Horizon Aircraft (HOVR), Optex Systems (OPXS), TAT Technologies (TATT), HEICO (HEI), and ParaZero Technologies (PRZO). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
SIFCO Industries (NYSE:SIF) and Air Industries Group (NYSE:AIRI) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
24.2% of SIFCO Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of Air Industries Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.1% of SIFCO Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.2% of Air Industries Group 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.
SIFCO Industries has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air Industries Group has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Air Industries Group had 9 more articles in the media than SIFCO Industries. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Air Industries Group and 1 mentions for SIFCO Industries. Air Industries Group's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat SIFCO Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Air Industries Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Air Industries Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SIFCO Industries. Air Industries Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SIFCO Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Air Industries Group has a net margin of -4.14% compared to SIFCO Industries' net margin of -10.98%. Air Industries Group's return on equity of -13.61% beat SIFCO Industries' return on equity.
SIFCO Industries received 48 more outperform votes than Air Industries Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave SIFCO Industries an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Air Industries Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Air Industries Group beats SIFCO Industries on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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