XPEL vs. AZZ, NTIC, GT, VC, QS, DORM, LCII, CARG, ADNT, and GTX
Should you be buying XPEL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XPEL include AZZ (AZZ), Northern Technologies International (NTIC), Goodyear Tire & Rubber (GT), Visteon (VC), QuantumScape (QS), Dorman Products (DORM), LCI Industries (LCII), CarGurus (CARG), Adient (ADNT), and Garrett Motion (GTX).
XPEL (NASDAQ:XPEL) and AZZ (NYSE:AZZ) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
75.1% of XPEL shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of AZZ shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.5% of XPEL shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of AZZ shares are owned by 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.
XPEL has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AZZ has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AZZ received 252 more outperform votes than XPEL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.14% of users gave AZZ an outperform vote while only 54.43% of users gave XPEL an outperform vote.
AZZ has higher revenue and earnings than XPEL. AZZ is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than XPEL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
XPEL presently has a consensus price target of $38.50, suggesting a potential downside of 1.64%. AZZ has a consensus price target of $88.33, suggesting a potential upside of 15.26%. Given AZZ's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AZZ is more favorable than XPEL.
XPEL has a net margin of 11.99% compared to AZZ's net margin of 6.61%. XPEL's return on equity of 29.11% beat AZZ's return on equity.
In the previous week, XPEL and XPEL both had 4 articles in the media. AZZ's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat XPEL's score of 0.27 indicating that AZZ is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AZZ beats XPEL on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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