LVWR vs. FOXF, HOG, BLBD, THRM, CTOS, WNC, XPEL, AXL, DRVN, and KAR
Should you be buying LiveWire Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LiveWire Group include Fox Factory (FOXF), Harley-Davidson (HOG), Blue Bird (BLBD), Gentherm (THRM), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), Wabash National (WNC), XPEL (XPEL), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Driven Brands (DRVN), and OPENLANE (KAR). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
LiveWire Group (NYSE:LVWR) and Fox Factory (NASDAQ:FOXF) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
0.9% of LiveWire Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of LiveWire Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Fox Factory shares are held by 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.
Fox Factory received 407 more outperform votes than LiveWire Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.22% of users gave Fox Factory an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave LiveWire Group an outperform vote.
Fox Factory has higher revenue and earnings than LiveWire Group. LiveWire Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fox Factory, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LiveWire Group has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fox Factory has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fox Factory has a net margin of 5.41% compared to LiveWire Group's net margin of -317.96%. Fox Factory's return on equity of 10.56% beat LiveWire Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, LiveWire Group had 7 more articles in the media than Fox Factory. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for LiveWire Group and 2 mentions for Fox Factory. Fox Factory's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat LiveWire Group's score of 0.39 indicating that Fox Factory is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LiveWire Group presently has a consensus price target of $7.25, indicating a potential upside of 7.73%. Fox Factory has a consensus price target of $46.83, indicating a potential downside of 0.29%. Given LiveWire Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LiveWire Group is more favorable than Fox Factory.
Summary
Fox Factory beats LiveWire Group on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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