Financial Review: AEVEX (AVEX) and Its Competitors

AEVEX (NYSE:AVEX) is one of 230 publicly-traded companies in the “Aerospace & Defense” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare AEVEX to similar businesses based on the strength of its dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares AEVEX and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AEVEX	N/A	N/A	N/A
AEVEX Competitors	-305.55%	-31.46%	-4.73%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

49.5% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.1% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for AEVEX and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AEVEX	1	2	9	0	2.67
AEVEX Competitors	2072	8037	12366	539	2.49

AEVEX presently has a consensus target price of $33.89, suggesting a potential upside of 108.03%. As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies have a potential upside of 30.18%. Given AEVEX’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe AEVEX is more favorable than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares AEVEX and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
AEVEX	N/A	N/A	50.91
AEVEX Competitors	$8.39 billion	$573.01 million	27.09

AEVEX’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than AEVEX. AEVEX is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

AEVEX beats its peers on 7 of the 11 factors compared.

AEVEX Company Profile

AEVEX Corp. is a holding company which designs, manufactures and provides autonomous systems and navigation technologies. The company’s operating segment includes tactical systems and global solutions. AEVEX Corp. is based in Solana Beach, California.