Reviewing AEVEX (AVEX) & Its Competitors

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

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AEVEX	0	1	9	0	2.90
AEVEX Competitors	2005	7954	12185	530	2.50

AEVEX currently has a consensus target price of $35.62, suggesting a potential upside of 75.49%. As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies have a potential upside of 27.12%. Given AEVEX’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe AEVEX is more favorable than its peers.

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	-246.56%	-118.18%	-4.60%

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	$596.37 million	N/A	81.20
AEVEX Competitors	$8.75 billion	$590.34 million	34.18

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.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

50.1% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are owned by institutional investors. 12.1% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

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