HEI vs. LDOS, TDY, LHX, HII, CW, ESLT, TDG, GD, BA, and LMT
Should you be buying HEICO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HEICO include Leidos (LDOS), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Elbit Systems (ESLT), TransDigm Group (TDG), General Dynamics (GD), Boeing (BA), and Lockheed Martin (LMT). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Leidos (NYSE:LDOS) and HEICO (NYSE:HEI) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Leidos pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. HEICO pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Leidos pays out 65.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HEICO pays out 6.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Leidos has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and HEICO has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Leidos has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HEICO has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HEICO has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Leidos. Leidos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HEICO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Leidos had 17 more articles in the media than HEICO. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Leidos and 13 mentions for HEICO. HEICO's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Leidos' score of 0.19 indicating that Leidos is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Leidos received 154 more outperform votes than HEICO when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.71% of users gave HEICO an outperform vote while only 63.98% of users gave Leidos an outperform vote.
HEICO has a net margin of 13.11% compared to HEICO's net margin of 2.04%. HEICO's return on equity of 25.66% beat Leidos' return on equity.
76.1% of Leidos shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of HEICO shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Leidos shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of HEICO shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Leidos presently has a consensus price target of $145.67, indicating a potential upside of 0.47%. HEICO has a consensus price target of $206.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.81%. Given HEICO's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Leidos is more favorable than HEICO.
Summary
Leidos beats HEICO on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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