ATRO vs. DCO, PKE, EH, LUNR, ASLE, SPCE, RDW, SPIR, TGI, and VTSI
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), AerSale (ASLE), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), Redwire (RDW), Spire Global (SPIR), Triumph Group (TGI), and VirTra (VTSI). 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 business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, earnings and community ranking.
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.
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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Ducommun had 8 more articles in the media than Astronics. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ducommun and 0 mentions for Astronics. Astronics' average media sentiment score of 1.94 beat Ducommun's score of 0.74 indicating that Astronics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Astronics currently has a consensus price target of $19.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.68%. Ducommun has a consensus price target of $65.20, indicating a potential upside of 12.20%. Given Ducommun's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ducommun is more favorable than Astronics.
Ducommun has a net margin of 2.29% compared to Astronics' net margin of -3.51%. Ducommun's return on equity of 6.06% beat Astronics' return on equity.
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.
Ducommun received 233 more outperform votes than Astronics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.45% of users gave Ducommun an outperform vote while only 65.73% of users gave Astronics an outperform vote.
Summary
Ducommun beats Astronics on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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