Head to Head Comparison: Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW) and Exail Technologies (OTCMKTS:GGRGF)

Exail Technologies (OTCMKTS:GGRGF) and Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Exail 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
Exail Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	$0.52	98.41
Curtiss-Wright	$3.65 billion	6.60	$484.23 million	$14.53	44.91

Curtiss-Wright has higher revenue and earnings than Exail Technologies. Curtiss-Wright is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Exail Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Dividends

Exail Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Curtiss-Wright pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Exail Technologies pays out 61.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Curtiss-Wright pays out 7.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Curtiss-Wright has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Exail Technologies and Curtiss-Wright, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Exail Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
Curtiss-Wright	0	3	3	0	2.50

Curtiss-Wright has a consensus target price of $782.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.92%. Given Curtiss-Wright’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Curtiss-Wright is more favorable than Exail Technologies.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

6.8% of Exail 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Exail Technologies and Curtiss-Wright’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Exail Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Curtiss-Wright	14.81%	20.49%	10.19%

Summary

Curtiss-Wright beats Exail Technologies on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Exail Technologies

Exail Technologies provides robotics, maritime, navigation, aerospace, and photonics technologies solutions in France and internationally. It offers components, products, and systems for naval defense, maritime, aerospace, photonics, land defense, and other industries. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

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.