AIR vs. TGI, RKLB, KTOS, UP, SPR, EVEX, KAMN, ACHR, EH, and DCO
Should you be buying AAR stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AAR include Triumph Group (TGI), Rocket Lab USA (RKLB), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), Wheels Up Experience (UP), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), EVE (EVEX), Kaman (KAMN), Archer Aviation (ACHR), EHang (EH), and Ducommun (DCO). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
AAR (NYSE:AIR) and Triumph Group (NYSE:TGI) are both aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
AAR has a net margin of 2.73% compared to Triumph Group's net margin of -3.49%. AAR's return on equity of 10.17% beat Triumph Group's return on equity.
Triumph Group received 276 more outperform votes than AAR when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.12% of users gave Triumph Group an outperform vote while only 60.71% of users gave AAR an outperform vote.
AAR has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Triumph Group has a beta of 2.55, meaning that its stock price is 155% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.7% of AAR shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Triumph Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of AAR shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Triumph Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AAR presently has a consensus target price of $82.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.81%. Triumph Group has a consensus target price of $19.63, suggesting a potential upside of 33.87%. Given Triumph Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Triumph Group is more favorable than AAR.
AAR has higher revenue and earnings than Triumph Group. Triumph Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AAR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AAR had 1 more articles in the media than Triumph Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for AAR and 6 mentions for Triumph Group. Triumph Group's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat AAR's score of 0.92 indicating that Triumph Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AAR beats Triumph Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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