PKE vs. ATRO, DCO, EH, SPIR, RDW, VTSI, BAER, SPCE, EVTL, and ASLE
Should you be buying Park Aerospace stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park Aerospace include Astronics (ATRO), Ducommun (DCO), EHang (EH), Spire Global (SPIR), Redwire (RDW), VirTra (VTSI), Bridger Aerospace Group (BAER), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), Vertical Aerospace (EVTL), and AerSale (ASLE). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Astronics (NASDAQ:ATRO) and Park Aerospace (NYSE:PKE) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Astronics currently has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.68%. Given Park Aerospace's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Astronics is more favorable than Park Aerospace.
In the previous week, Park Aerospace's average media sentiment score of 1.94 beat Astronics' score of 1.36 indicating that Astronics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Astronics received 170 more outperform votes than Park Aerospace when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.73% of users gave Astronics an outperform vote while only 60.37% of users gave Park Aerospace an outperform vote.
Park Aerospace has a net margin of 17.87% compared to Park Aerospace's net margin of -3.51%. Astronics' return on equity of 6.44% beat Park Aerospace's return on equity.
56.7% of Astronics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.8% of Park Aerospace shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.9% of Astronics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Park Aerospace shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Park Aerospace has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Astronics. Astronics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Astronics has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Park Aerospace has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Park Aerospace beats Astronics on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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