Head-To-Head Review: AEVEX (AVEX) versus Its Competitors

AEVEX (NYSE:AVEX) is one of 229 publicly-traded companies in the “Aerospace & Defense” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare AEVEX to related companies based on the strength of its dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares AEVEX and its competitors’ 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	-241.78%	-110.89%	-4.37%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for AEVEX and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AEVEX	0	1	9	0	2.90
AEVEX Competitors	2013	7987	12282	537	2.50

AEVEX presently has a consensus target price of $35.62, suggesting a potential upside of 69.72%. As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies have a potential upside of 28.56%. Given AEVEX’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe AEVEX is more favorable than its competitors.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

50.1% 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares AEVEX and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
AEVEX	N/A	N/A	83.96
AEVEX Competitors	$8.48 billion	$577.31 million	31.78

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

Summary

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

About AEVEX

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.