VC vs. DORM, LCII, ADNT, GTX, DAN, PHIN, THRM, MOD, AXL, and ALSN
Should you be buying Visteon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Visteon include Dorman Products (DORM), LCI Industries (LCII), Adient (ADNT), Garrett Motion (GTX), Dana (DAN), PHINIA (PHIN), Gentherm (THRM), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), and Allison Transmission (ALSN). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
Dorman Products (NASDAQ:DORM) and Visteon (NASDAQ:VC) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk and dividends.
Visteon has a net margin of 12.60% compared to Visteon's net margin of 8.10%. Dorman Products' return on equity of 53.49% beat Visteon's return on equity.
In the previous week, Dorman Products had 6 more articles in the media than Visteon. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Dorman Products and 5 mentions for Visteon. Dorman Products' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Visteon's score of 0.43 indicating that Visteon is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Visteon has higher revenue and earnings than Dorman Products. Visteon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dorman Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dorman Products currently has a consensus price target of $103.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.78%. Visteon has a consensus price target of $141.75, indicating a potential upside of 24.14%. Given Dorman Products' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Visteon is more favorable than Dorman Products.
Dorman Products has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Visteon has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dorman Products received 278 more outperform votes than Visteon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.22% of users gave Dorman Products an outperform vote while only 32.33% of users gave Visteon an outperform vote.
84.7% of Dorman Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Visteon shares are held by institutional investors. 10.0% of Dorman Products shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Visteon shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Visteon beats Dorman Products on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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