XPEL vs. WNC, AXL, CTOS, CHPT, NKLA, LAZR, MLR, SMP, EVGO, and PLOW
Should you be buying XPEL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XPEL include Wabash National (WNC), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), ChargePoint (CHPT), Nikola (NKLA), Luminar Technologies (LAZR), Miller Industries (MLR), Standard Motor Products (SMP), EVgo (EVGO), and Douglas Dynamics (PLOW). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Wabash National (NYSE:WNC) and XPEL (NASDAQ:XPEL) 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 valuation, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
97.1% of Wabash National shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of XPEL shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Wabash National shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of XPEL shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Wabash National has higher revenue and earnings than XPEL. Wabash National is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than XPEL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wabash National has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XPEL has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wabash National received 316 more outperform votes than XPEL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.44% of users gave Wabash National an outperform vote while only 54.43% of users gave XPEL an outperform vote.
XPEL has a net margin of 11.99% compared to XPEL's net margin of 8.15%. XPEL's return on equity of 37.84% beat Wabash National's return on equity.
Wabash National presently has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.90%. XPEL has a consensus target price of $38.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.15%. Given Wabash National's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe XPEL is more favorable than Wabash National.
In the previous week, Wabash National had 10 more articles in the media than XPEL. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Wabash National and 2 mentions for XPEL. Wabash National's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat XPEL's score of 0.88 indicating that XPEL is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Wabash National and XPEL tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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