LAZR vs. SMP, AXL, HLLY, CPS, CVGI, AEVA, THRM, PHIN, DAN, and GTX
Should you be buying Luminar Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luminar Technologies include Standard Motor Products (SMP), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Holley (HLLY), Cooper-Standard (CPS), Commercial Vehicle Group (CVGI), Aeva Technologies (AEVA), Gentherm (THRM), PHINIA (PHIN), Dana (DAN), and Garrett Motion (GTX). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
Luminar Technologies (NASDAQ:LAZR) and Standard Motor Products (NYSE:SMP) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Standard Motor Products has higher revenue and earnings than Luminar Technologies. Luminar Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard Motor Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Luminar Technologies has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Standard Motor Products has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Standard Motor Products has a net margin of 2.28% compared to Luminar Technologies' net margin of -818.68%. Standard Motor Products' return on equity of 9.48% beat Luminar Technologies' return on equity.
Luminar Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $6.39, indicating a potential upside of 225.80%. Given Luminar Technologies' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Luminar Technologies is more favorable than Standard Motor Products.
In the previous week, Luminar Technologies had 15 more articles in the media than Standard Motor Products. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Luminar Technologies and 14 mentions for Standard Motor Products. Luminar Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Standard Motor Products' score of 0.20 indicating that Luminar Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
31.0% of Luminar Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of Standard Motor Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.3% of Luminar Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Standard Motor Products shares are owned 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.
Standard Motor Products received 256 more outperform votes than Luminar Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.93% of users gave Standard Motor Products an outperform vote while only 37.80% of users gave Luminar Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
Standard Motor Products beats Luminar Technologies on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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