DCO vs. ATRO, EH, PKE, LUNR, TGI, ACHR, ASLE, SPCE, KAMN, and RDW
Should you be buying Ducommun stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ducommun include Astronics (ATRO), EHang (EH), Park Aerospace (PKE), Intuitive Machines (LUNR), Triumph Group (TGI), Archer Aviation (ACHR), AerSale (ASLE), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), Kaman (KAMN), and Redwire (RDW). 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 investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.
56.7% of Astronics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of Ducommun shares are held by institutional investors. 10.9% of Astronics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.8% of Ducommun shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Astronics has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ducommun has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Astronics currently has a consensus price target of $19.00, suggesting a potential downside of 6.68%. Ducommun has a consensus price target of $65.20, suggesting a potential upside of 12.20%. Given Astronics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ducommun is more favorable than Astronics.
Ducommun has a net margin of 2.29% compared to Ducommun's net margin of -3.51%. Astronics' return on equity of 6.06% beat Ducommun's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ducommun had 12 more articles in the media than Astronics. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Ducommun and 0 mentions for Astronics. Ducommun's average media sentiment score of 1.94 beat Astronics' score of 0.74 indicating that Astronics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ducommun beats Astronics on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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