Textron (NYSE:TXT) & Spire Global (NYSE:SPIR) Financial Review

Spire Global (NYSE:SPIR) and Textron (NYSE:TXT) are both aerospace companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Spire Global and Textron, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Spire Global	0	1	4	0	2.80
Textron	0	6	6	0	2.50

Spire Global currently has a consensus price target of $18.20, indicating a potential upside of 103.13%. Textron has a consensus price target of $92.67, indicating a potential upside of 14.54%. Given Spire Global’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Spire Global is more favorable than Textron.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

20.0% of Spire Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.0% of Textron shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.7% of Spire Global shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Textron shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

Spire Global has a beta of 2.38, meaning that its stock price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Textron has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Spire Global and Textron’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Spire Global	-98.42%	-492.01%	-37.32%
Textron	5.80%	14.26%	6.12%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Spire Global and Textron”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Spire Global	$110.45 million	2.52	-$102.82 million	($3.48)	-2.57
Textron	$13.70 billion	1.05	$824.00 million	$4.42	18.30

Textron has higher revenue and earnings than Spire Global. Spire Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Textron, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Textron beats Spire Global on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Spire Global

Spire Global, Inc. provides subscription-based data, insights, predictive analytics, and related project-based services worldwide. The company offers satellite-based aircraft tracking data to power applications, drive decision making, and improve cost efficiencies; data, insights, and predictive analytics for highly accurate ship monitoring, real-time and near real-time vessel updates, port operations, ship safety and route optimization; and space-based data, AI-powered insights, and predictive weather analytics for accurate weather forecasting. It serves maritime, weather, aviation, and space services industries. The company was formerly known as Nanosatisfi, Inc. and changed its name to Spire Global, Inc. in July 2014. Spire Global, Inc. is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia.

About Textron

Textron Inc. operates in the aircraft, defense, industrial, and finance businesses worldwide. It operates through six segments: Textron Aviation, Bell, Textron Systems, Industrial, Textron eAviation, and Finance. The Textron Aviation segment manufactures, sells, and services business jets, turboprop and piston engine aircraft, and military trainer and defense aircraft; and offers maintenance, inspection, and repair services, as well as sells commercial parts. The Bell segment supplies military and commercial helicopters, tiltrotor aircrafts, and related spare parts and services. The Textron Systems segment offers unmanned aircraft systems, electronic systems and solutions, advanced marine crafts, piston aircraft engines, live military air-to-air and air-to-ship training, weapons and related components, and armored and specialty vehicles. The Industrial segment offers blow-molded solutions, including conventional plastic fuel tanks and pressurized fuel tanks for hybrid vehicle applications, clear-vision systems, plastic tanks for catalytic reduction systems, and battery housing systems for use in electric vehicles primarily to automobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs); and golf cars, off-road utility vehicles, powersports products, light transportation vehicles, aviation ground support equipment, professional turf-maintenance equipment, and turf-care vehicles to golf courses and resorts, government agencies and municipalities, consumers, outdoor enthusiasts, and commercial and industrial users. The Textron eAviation segment manufactures and sells light aircraft and gliders with electric and combustion engines; and provides other research and development initiatives related to sustainable aviation solutions. The Finance segment offers financing services to purchase new and pre-owned aviation aircraft and Bell helicopters. Textron Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island.