Financial Review: SIFCO Industries (NYSE:SIF) & Solstice Advanced Mat (NASDAQ:SOLS)

SIFCO Industries (NYSE:SIF) and Solstice Advanced Mat (NASDAQ:SOLS) are both aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares SIFCO Industries and Solstice Advanced Mat’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SIFCO Industries	-4.35%	-18.70%	-5.84%
Solstice Advanced Mat	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for SIFCO Industries and Solstice Advanced Mat, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SIFCO Industries	0	0	0	0	0.00
Solstice Advanced Mat	0	2	1	0	2.33

Solstice Advanced Mat has a consensus price target of $55.33, indicating a potential upside of 24.51%. Given Solstice Advanced Mat’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Solstice Advanced Mat is more favorable than SIFCO Industries.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares SIFCO Industries and Solstice Advanced Mat”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SIFCO Industries	$83.66 million	0.46	-$5.38 million	($0.13)	-47.38
Solstice Advanced Mat	$3.81 billion	1.85	N/A	N/A	N/A

Solstice Advanced Mat has higher revenue and earnings than SIFCO Industries.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

24.2% of SIFCO Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 28.3% of SIFCO Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Solstice Advanced Mat beats SIFCO Industries on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SIFCO Industries

SIFCO Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells forgings and machined components primarily for the aerospace and energy markets in North America and Europe. The company’s processes and services include forging, heat-treating, chemical processing, and machining. It also offers original equipment manufacturer and aftermarket components for aircraft and industrial gas turbine engines; steam turbine blades; structural airframe components; aircraft landing gear components; aircraft wheels and brakes; rotating components for helicopters; and commercial/industrial products. In addition, the company provides heat-treatment, surface-treatment, non-destructive testing, and select machining and sub-assembly of forged components. SIFCO Industries, Inc. was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

About Solstice Advanced Mat

Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high-performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more.