DRS vs. TDY, MOG.B, HXL, AVAV, CAE, SPR, FTAI, KTOS, AIR, and ESLT
Should you be buying Leonardo DRS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leonardo DRS include Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Moog (MOG.B), Hexcel (HXL), AeroVironment (AVAV), CAE (CAE), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), FTAI Aviation (FTAI), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), AAR (AIR), and Elbit Systems (ESLT). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Leonardo DRS (NASDAQ:DRS) and Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY) are both aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Leonardo DRS presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.07%. Teledyne Technologies has a consensus target price of $470.83, suggesting a potential upside of 15.85%. Given Teledyne Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Teledyne Technologies is more favorable than Leonardo DRS.
Teledyne Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Leonardo DRS. Teledyne Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leonardo DRS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Leonardo DRS has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teledyne Technologies has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Teledyne Technologies received 367 more outperform votes than Leonardo DRS when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 84.62% of users gave Leonardo DRS an outperform vote while only 66.43% of users gave Teledyne Technologies an outperform vote.
18.8% of Leonardo DRS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Leonardo DRS shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Teledyne Technologies has a net margin of 15.81% compared to Leonardo DRS's net margin of 6.28%. Teledyne Technologies' return on equity of 10.54% beat Leonardo DRS's return on equity.
In the previous week, Teledyne Technologies had 8 more articles in the media than Leonardo DRS. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Teledyne Technologies and 6 mentions for Leonardo DRS. Leonardo DRS's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Teledyne Technologies' score of 0.76 indicating that Leonardo DRS is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Teledyne Technologies beats Leonardo DRS on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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