DEFSEC Technologies (NASDAQ:DFSC – Get Free Report) and Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and dividends.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
21.4% of DEFSEC Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Curtiss-Wright shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Curtiss-Wright shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for DEFSEC Technologies and Curtiss-Wright, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| DEFSEC Technologies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Curtiss-Wright | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2.62 |
Profitability
This table compares DEFSEC Technologies and Curtiss-Wright’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| DEFSEC Technologies | -120.97% | -144.66% | -82.13% |
| Curtiss-Wright | 14.81% | 20.49% | 10.19% |
Volatility & Risk
DEFSEC Technologies has a beta of 2.82, indicating that its share price is 182% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Curtiss-Wright has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares DEFSEC Technologies and Curtiss-Wright”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| DEFSEC Technologies | $3.53 million | 0.51 | -$6.88 million | ($4.62) | -0.20 |
| Curtiss-Wright | $3.50 billion | 5.42 | $484.23 million | $14.53 | 35.32 |
Curtiss-Wright has higher revenue and earnings than DEFSEC Technologies. DEFSEC Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Curtiss-Wright, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Curtiss-Wright beats DEFSEC Technologies on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About DEFSEC Technologies
DEFSEC develops and commercializes breakthrough next-generation tactical systems for military and security forces. The Company’s current portfolio of offerings includes digitization of tactical forces for real-time shared situational awareness and targeting information from any source (including drones) streamed directly to users’ smart devices and weapons. Other DEFSEC products include countermeasures against threats such as electronic detection, lasers and drones. These systems can operate stand-alone or integrate seamlessly with OEM products and battlefield management systems, and all come integrated with TAK. The Company also has a new proprietary non-lethal product line branded PARA OPSTM with applications across all segments of the non-lethal market, including law enforcement. The Company is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with representative offices in London, UK and Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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.
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