BLBD vs. MLR, HYLN, GP, PEV, NXU, OSK, XPEV, LEA, ALSN, and LCID
Should you be buying Blue Bird stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blue Bird include Miller Industries (MLR), Hyliion (HYLN), GreenPower Motor (GP), Phoenix Motor (PEV), NXU (NXU), Oshkosh (OSK), XPeng (XPEV), Lear (LEA), Allison Transmission (ALSN), and Lucid Group (LCID). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Miller Industries (NYSE:MLR) and Blue Bird (NASDAQ:BLBD) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and risk.
Miller Industries has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blue Bird has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
79.2% of Miller Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Blue Bird shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Miller Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Blue Bird shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Blue Bird had 8 more articles in the media than Miller Industries. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Blue Bird and 0 mentions for Miller Industries. Miller Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Blue Bird's score of 0.00 indicating that Blue Bird is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Blue Bird has a net margin of 6.36% compared to Blue Bird's net margin of 5.41%. Miller Industries' return on equity of 154.10% beat Blue Bird's return on equity.
Miller Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Bird. Miller Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blue Bird, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blue Bird received 149 more outperform votes than Miller Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.36% of users gave Miller Industries an outperform vote while only 61.30% of users gave Blue Bird an outperform vote.
Blue Bird has a consensus price target of $49.25, suggesting a potential downside of 13.72%. Given Miller Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Blue Bird is more favorable than Miller Industries.
Summary
Blue Bird beats Miller Industries on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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