Head to Head Contrast: MDA Space (MDA) & Its Rivals

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for MDA Space and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MDA Space	0	2	8	1	2.91
MDA Space Competitors	2164	8282	12816	582	2.50

MDA Space presently has a consensus target price of $48.50, suggesting a potential upside of 72.17%. As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies have a potential upside of 30.06%. Given MDA Space’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe MDA Space is more favorable than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares MDA Space and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MDA Space	5.75%	9.21%	4.55%
MDA Space Competitors	-347.37%	-49.14%	-4.39%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares MDA Space and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
MDA Space	$1.17 billion	$77.65 million	35.21
MDA Space Competitors	$8.35 billion	$569.54 million	21.42

MDA Space’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than MDA Space. MDA Space 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.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

49.5% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

MDA Space beats its competitors on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

MDA Space Company Profile

MDA Space is a Canadian space technology company that develops and provides systems and services for government, commercial and defense customers. Its work spans satellite communications, Earth observation and space robotics, supporting missions and operations on Earth and in orbit. The company designs and builds satellites and related systems, provides geospatial data and analytics, and develops robotic technologies for space. Its robotics work includes contributions to the Canadarm2 and Dextre systems on the International Space Station, as well as work on Canadarm3, planned for the Lunar Gateway.