HII vs. CW, ESLT, FTAI, CAE, HXL, DRS, MOG.B, AVAV, SPR, and TXT
Should you be buying Huntington Ingalls Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntington Ingalls Industries include Curtiss-Wright (CW), Elbit Systems (ESLT), FTAI Aviation (FTAI), CAE (CAE), Hexcel (HXL), Leonardo DRS (DRS), Moog (MOG.B), AeroVironment (AVAV), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), and Textron (TXT). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW) and Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
82.7% of Curtiss-Wright shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Huntington Ingalls Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Curtiss-Wright shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Huntington Ingalls Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Curtiss-Wright pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Huntington Ingalls Industries pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Curtiss-Wright pays out 8.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Huntington Ingalls Industries pays out 29.3% 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. Curtiss-Wright has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Huntington Ingalls Industries has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Huntington Ingalls Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Curtiss-Wright presently has a consensus price target of $277.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.43%. Huntington Ingalls Industries has a consensus price target of $267.33, indicating a potential upside of 4.59%. Given Curtiss-Wright's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Huntington Ingalls Industries is more favorable than Curtiss-Wright.
In the previous week, Huntington Ingalls Industries had 3 more articles in the media than Curtiss-Wright. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Huntington Ingalls Industries and 9 mentions for Curtiss-Wright. Huntington Ingalls Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Curtiss-Wright's score of 0.78 indicating that Curtiss-Wright is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Curtiss-Wright has a net margin of 12.78% compared to Curtiss-Wright's net margin of 6.09%. Curtiss-Wright's return on equity of 18.08% beat Huntington Ingalls Industries' return on equity.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Curtiss-Wright. Huntington Ingalls Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Curtiss-Wright, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Curtiss-Wright has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Huntington Ingalls Industries has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Curtiss-Wright received 93 more outperform votes than Huntington Ingalls Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.90% of users gave Curtiss-Wright an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave Huntington Ingalls Industries an outperform vote.
Summary
Curtiss-Wright beats Huntington Ingalls Industries on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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