Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW – Get Free Report) and Innovative Solutions and Support (NASDAQ:ISSC – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
82.7% of Curtiss-Wright shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.5% of Innovative Solutions and Support shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Curtiss-Wright shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Innovative Solutions and Support shares are owned by 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.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Curtiss-Wright and Innovative Solutions and Support, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Curtiss-Wright | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2.62 |
| Innovative Solutions and Support | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3.00 |
Curtiss-Wright presently has a consensus price target of $676.38, suggesting a potential upside of 36.30%. Innovative Solutions and Support has a consensus price target of $16.25, suggesting a potential downside of 21.65%. Given Curtiss-Wright’s higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Curtiss-Wright is more favorable than Innovative Solutions and Support.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Curtiss-Wright and Innovative Solutions and Support”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Curtiss-Wright | $3.50 billion | 5.24 | $484.23 million | $14.53 | 34.15 |
| Innovative Solutions and Support | $93.15 million | 3.98 | $15.63 million | $1.05 | 19.75 |
Curtiss-Wright has higher revenue and earnings than Innovative Solutions and Support. Innovative Solutions and Support is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Curtiss-Wright, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dividends
Curtiss-Wright pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Innovative Solutions and Support pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Curtiss-Wright pays out 7.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Innovative Solutions and Support pays out 190.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Curtiss-Wright has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years.
Profitability
This table compares Curtiss-Wright and Innovative Solutions and Support’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Curtiss-Wright | 14.81% | 20.49% | 10.19% |
| Innovative Solutions and Support | 20.50% | 30.53% | 17.28% |
Risk and Volatility
Curtiss-Wright has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innovative Solutions and Support has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Curtiss-Wright beats Innovative Solutions and Support on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Curtiss-Wright
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides engineered products, solutions, and services mainly to aerospace and defense, commercial power, process, and industrial markets worldwide. It operates through three segments: Aerospace & Industrial, Defense Electronics, and Naval & Power. The Aerospace & Industrial segment offers industrial and specialty vehicle products, such as power management electronics, traction inverters, transmission shifters, and control systems; sensors, controls, and electro-mechanical actuation components used on commercial and military aircraft; and surface technology services including shot peening, laser peening, and engineered coatings. The Defense Electronics segment provides commercial off-the-shelf embedded computing board-level modules and processing equipment, data acquisition and flight test instrumentation equipment, integrated subsystems, instrumentation and control systems, tactical communications solutions; and electronic stabilization products, and weapons handling systems; avionics and electronics; flight test equipment; and aircraft data management solutions. The Naval & Power segment offers main coolant pumps, power-dense compact motors, generators, steam turbines, valves, and secondary propulsion systems; energy absorbers, retractable hook cable systems, net-stanchion systems and mobile systems to support fixed land-based arresting systems; hardware, valves, fastening systems, specialized containment doors, airlock hatches, and spent fuel management products; reactor coolant pumps and control rod drive mechanisms for commercial nuclear power plants, as well as various nuclear reactor technologies. This segment furnishes severe-service valve technologies and services, heat exchanger repair, and piping test and isolation products, and offers ship repair and maintenance for the U.S. navy. Curtiss-Wright Corporation was incorporated in 1929 and is headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina.
About Innovative Solutions and Support
Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc., a systems integrator, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and services flight guidance, autothrottles, and cockpit display systems in the United States and internationally. It offers flat panel display systems that replicate the display of analog or digital displays on one screen and replace existing displays in legacy aircraft, as well as used for security monitoring on-board aircraft and as tactical workstations on military aircraft; and flight deck management system, a navigation and performance computer that upgrade for commercial air transport aircraft. The company also provides integrated standby units, which incorporate the measurement and display of attitude, altitude, airspeed, and navigation data into a single backup navigation instrument for military, commercial air transport, and corporate/general aviation applications. In addition, it offers digital air data computers that calculate various air data parameters, such as altitude, airspeed, vertical speed, angle of attack, and other information; integrated air data computers and display units, which calculate and convey air data information; altitude displays that convey aircraft altitude measurements; airspeed displays that convey various airspeed measurements; and altitude alerters. Further, the company offers the engine and fuel displays that convey information related to fuel and oil levels, and engine activity, including oil and hydraulic pressure and temperature; integrated global navigation systems; ThrustSense, a full regime autothrottle; and utility management systems. It serves commercial air transport carriers and corporate/general aviation companies, the Department of Defense and its commercial contractors, aircraft operators, aircraft modification centers, government agencies, and foreign militaries, as well as original equipment manufacturers. Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc. was incorporated in 1988 and is based in Exton, Pennsylvania.
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