TDY vs. NOC, DRS, LHX, LDOS, TXT, CW, HII, ESLT, HEI, and FTAI
Should you be buying Teledyne Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teledyne Technologies include Northrop Grumman (NOC), Leonardo DRS (DRS), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), Leidos (LDOS), Textron (TXT), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Elbit Systems (ESLT), HEICO (HEI), and FTAI Aviation (FTAI). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) and Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
83.4% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Northrop Grumman presently has a consensus target price of $514.33, indicating a potential upside of 9.38%. Teledyne Technologies has a consensus target price of $470.83, indicating a potential upside of 15.85%. Given Northrop Grumman's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Teledyne Technologies is more favorable than Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman received 269 more outperform votes than Teledyne Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.43% of users gave Teledyne Technologies an outperform vote while only 62.33% of users gave Northrop Grumman an outperform vote.
Northrop Grumman has higher revenue and earnings than Teledyne Technologies. Teledyne Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northrop Grumman, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Teledyne Technologies has a net margin of 15.81% compared to Teledyne Technologies' net margin of 5.38%. Teledyne Technologies' return on equity of 24.09% beat Northrop Grumman's return on equity.
In the previous week, Northrop Grumman had 7 more articles in the media than Teledyne Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Northrop Grumman and 14 mentions for Teledyne Technologies. Northrop Grumman's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Teledyne Technologies' score of 0.48 indicating that Teledyne Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Northrop Grumman has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teledyne Technologies has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Teledyne Technologies beats Northrop Grumman on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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