BLBD vs. MLR, WNC, CTOS, AXL, NKLA, LVWR, SMP, XPEL, LAZR, and HSAI
Should you be buying Blue Bird stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blue Bird include Miller Industries (MLR), Wabash National (WNC), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Nikola (NKLA), LiveWire Group (LVWR), Standard Motor Products (SMP), XPEL (XPEL), Luminar Technologies (LAZR), and Hesai Group (HSAI). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Blue Bird (NASDAQ:BLBD) and Miller Industries (NYSE:MLR) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Blue Bird currently has a consensus target price of $35.42, suggesting a potential upside of 0.05%. Given Blue Bird's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Blue Bird is more favorable than Miller Industries.
93.6% of Blue Bird shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.2% of Miller Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Blue Bird shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Miller Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Blue Bird has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Miller Industries has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Blue Bird and Blue Bird both had 3 articles in the media. Blue Bird's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Miller Industries' score of 0.15 indicating that Blue Bird is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Miller Industries has a net margin of 5.05% compared to Blue Bird's net margin of 5.04%. Blue Bird's return on equity of 223.85% beat Miller Industries' return on equity.
Miller Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Bird. Miller Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blue Bird, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blue Bird received 144 more outperform votes than Miller Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.36% of users gave Miller Industries an outperform vote while only 60.91% of users gave Blue Bird an outperform vote.
Summary
Blue Bird beats Miller Industries on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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