VC vs. MTOR, ADNT, DAN, ALV, BWA, GNTX, IEP, LEA, ALSN, and MOD
Should you be buying Visteon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Visteon include Meritor (MTOR), Adient (ADNT), Dana (DAN), Autoliv (ALV), BorgWarner (BWA), Gentex (GNTX), Icahn Enterprises (IEP), Lear (LEA), Allison Transmission (ALSN), and Modine Manufacturing (MOD).
Visteon (NASDAQ:VC) and Meritor (NYSE:MTOR) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Visteon has higher revenue and earnings than Meritor. Visteon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Meritor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Visteon had 2 more articles in the media than Meritor. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Visteon and 0 mentions for Meritor. Visteon's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat Meritor's score of 0.25 indicating that Visteon is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.7% of Visteon shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.3% of Meritor shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Visteon shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Meritor shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Visteon presently has a consensus target price of $141.75, suggesting a potential upside of 33.25%. Given Visteon's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Visteon is more favorable than Meritor.
Meritor received 413 more outperform votes than Visteon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.23% of users gave Meritor an outperform vote while only 32.33% of users gave Visteon an outperform vote.
Visteon has a net margin of 12.60% compared to Meritor's net margin of 5.84%. Visteon's return on equity of 53.49% beat Meritor's return on equity.
Visteon has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meritor has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Visteon beats Meritor on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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