XPEL vs. AXL, NKLA, CTOS, CHPT, WNC, SMP, LAZR, MLR, HSAI, and BLBD
Should you be buying XPEL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XPEL include American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Nikola (NKLA), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), ChargePoint (CHPT), Wabash National (WNC), Standard Motor Products (SMP), Luminar Technologies (LAZR), Miller Industries (MLR), Hesai Group (HSAI), and Blue Bird (BLBD). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
American Axle & Manufacturing (NYSE:AXL) and XPEL (NASDAQ:XPEL) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
In the previous week, American Axle & Manufacturing had 8 more articles in the media than XPEL. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for American Axle & Manufacturing and 14 mentions for XPEL. XPEL's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat American Axle & Manufacturing's score of 0.05 indicating that American Axle & Manufacturing is being referred to more favorably in the media.
91.4% of American Axle & Manufacturing shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of XPEL shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of American Axle & Manufacturing shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.6% of XPEL shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
XPEL has a net margin of 11.99% compared to XPEL's net margin of -0.13%. American Axle & Manufacturing's return on equity of 29.11% beat XPEL's return on equity.
American Axle & Manufacturing has a beta of 2.19, suggesting that its stock price is 119% 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.
XPEL has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Axle & Manufacturing. American Axle & Manufacturing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than XPEL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Axle & Manufacturing received 406 more outperform votes than XPEL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.42% of users gave American Axle & Manufacturing an outperform vote while only 54.43% of users gave XPEL an outperform vote.
American Axle & Manufacturing currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.76%. XPEL has a consensus target price of $38.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.35%. Given American Axle & Manufacturing's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe XPEL is more favorable than American Axle & Manufacturing.
Summary
XPEL beats American Axle & Manufacturing on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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