Head-To-Head Comparison: Park Aerospace (PKE) & Its Rivals

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

Risk and Volatility

Park Aerospace has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Park Aerospace’s competitors have a beta of 1.32, suggesting that their average share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

77.8% of Park Aerospace shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.5% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of Park Aerospace shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Park Aerospace and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Park Aerospace	$73.30 million	$11.27 million	31.35
Park Aerospace Competitors	$8.44 billion	$569.54 million	24.13

Park Aerospace’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Park Aerospace. Park Aerospace 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.

Dividends

Park Aerospace pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Park Aerospace pays out 69.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.1% and pay out 39.3% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Profitability

This table compares Park Aerospace and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Park Aerospace	18.42%	11.21%	10.25%
Park Aerospace Competitors	-278.26%	-46.47%	-4.05%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Park Aerospace and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Park Aerospace	0	0	5	0	3.00
Park Aerospace Competitors	2152	8250	12739	579	2.50

Park Aerospace presently has a consensus target price of $42.50, suggesting a potential upside of 88.26%. As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies have a potential upside of 32.90%. Given Park Aerospace’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Park Aerospace is more favorable than its competitors.

Summary

Park Aerospace beats its competitors on 9 of the 15 factors compared.

About Park Aerospace

Park Aerospace Corp., an aerospace company, develops and manufactures solution and hot-melt advanced composite materials used to produce composite structures for the aerospace market in North America, Asia, and Europe. It offers advanced composite materials, including film adhesives and lightning strike protection materials that are used to produce primary and secondary structures for jet engines, large and regional transport aircrafts, military aircrafts, unmanned aerial vehicles, business jets, general aviation aircrafts, and rotary wing aircrafts. The company also provides specialty ablative materials for rocket motors and nozzles; and specially designed materials for radome applications. In addition, it designs and fabricates composite parts, structures and assemblies, and low volume tooling for the aerospace industry. The company was formerly known as Park Electrochemical Corp. and changed its name to Park Aerospace Corp. in July 2019. Park Aerospace Corp. was incorporated in 1954 and is based in Westbury, New York.