LDOS vs. TDY, TXT, HEI, CW, HII, ESLT, FTAI, CAE, HXL, and DRS
Should you be buying Leidos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leidos include Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), HEICO (HEI), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Elbit Systems (ESLT), FTAI Aviation (FTAI), CAE (CAE), Hexcel (HXL), and Leonardo DRS (DRS). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Leidos (NYSE:LDOS) and Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Leidos presently has a consensus target price of $145.67, suggesting a potential downside of 2.02%. Teledyne Technologies has a consensus target price of $470.83, suggesting a potential upside of 15.85%. Given Teledyne Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Teledyne Technologies is more favorable than Leidos.
76.1% of Leidos shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Teledyne Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Leidos shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Teledyne Technologies shares are owned by 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.
Leidos has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teledyne Technologies has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Leidos received 265 more outperform votes than Teledyne Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.43% of users gave Teledyne Technologies an outperform vote while only 63.98% of users gave Leidos an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Teledyne Technologies had 1 more articles in the media than Leidos. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Teledyne Technologies and 13 mentions for Leidos. Leidos' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Teledyne Technologies' score of 0.77 indicating that Leidos is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Teledyne Technologies has a net margin of 15.81% compared to Leidos' net margin of 2.04%. Leidos' return on equity of 25.66% beat Teledyne Technologies' return on equity.
Teledyne Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Leidos. Teledyne Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leidos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Teledyne Technologies beats Leidos on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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