BLBD vs. MLR, WNC, CTOS, NKLA, XPEL, AXL, LVWR, THRM, SMP, and PHIN
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), Nikola (NKLA), XPEL (XPEL), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), LiveWire Group (LVWR), Gentherm (THRM), Standard Motor Products (SMP), and PHINIA (PHIN). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Miller Industries (NYSE:MLR) and Blue Bird (NASDAQ:BLBD) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
In the previous week, Blue Bird had 4 more articles in the media than Miller Industries. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Blue Bird and 1 mentions for Miller Industries. Miller Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Blue Bird's score of 0.00 indicating that Blue Bird is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Miller Industries has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blue Bird has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
79.2% of Miller Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Blue Bird shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Miller Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Blue Bird shares are held by company 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.
Blue Bird has a consensus price target of $35.42, indicating a potential upside of 3.50%. Given Miller Industries' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Blue Bird is more favorable than Miller Industries.
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.
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.
Miller Industries has a net margin of 5.05% compared to Miller Industries' net margin of 5.04%. Miller Industries' return on equity of 223.85% beat Blue Bird's return on equity.
Summary
Blue Bird beats Miller Industries on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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