DAN vs. THRM, LCII, DORM, AXL, SMP, MOD, ALSN, LEA, PHIN, and GTX
Should you be buying Dana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dana include Gentherm (THRM), LCI Industries (LCII), Dorman Products (DORM), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Standard Motor Products (SMP), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), Allison Transmission (ALSN), Lear (LEA), PHINIA (PHIN), and Garrett Motion (GTX). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
Gentherm (NASDAQ:THRM) and Dana (NYSE:DAN) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
97.1% of Gentherm shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of Dana shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Gentherm shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Dana 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.
Gentherm presently has a consensus target price of $65.75, indicating a potential upside of 28.34%. Dana has a consensus target price of $16.67, indicating a potential upside of 25.22%. Given Dana's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Gentherm is more favorable than Dana.
Gentherm has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dana has a beta of 2.46, suggesting that its stock price is 146% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gentherm had 14 more articles in the media than Dana. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Gentherm and 19 mentions for Dana. Dana's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Gentherm's score of 0.33 indicating that Gentherm is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dana received 156 more outperform votes than Gentherm when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.47% of users gave Gentherm an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Dana an outperform vote.
Gentherm has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Dana. Gentherm is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gentherm has a net margin of 3.23% compared to Gentherm's net margin of 0.12%. Dana's return on equity of 13.56% beat Gentherm's return on equity.
Summary
Gentherm beats Dana on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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