CVGI vs. RAIL, TWIN, CAT, DE, PCAR, CMI, WAB, CNH, TTC, and AGCO
Should you be buying Commercial Vehicle Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Commercial Vehicle Group include FreightCar America (RAIL), Twin Disc (TWIN), Caterpillar (CAT), Deere & Company (DE), PACCAR (PCAR), Cummins (CMI), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign (CNH), Toro (TTC), and AGCO (AGCO). These companies are all part of the "construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks" industry.
Commercial Vehicle Group vs. Its Competitors
FreightCar America (NASDAQ:RAIL) and Commercial Vehicle Group (NASDAQ:CVGI) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Commercial Vehicle Group received 78 more outperform votes than FreightCar America when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.66% of users gave Commercial Vehicle Group an outperform vote while only 52.36% of users gave FreightCar America an outperform vote.
32.0% of FreightCar America shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.3% of Commercial Vehicle Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.7% of FreightCar America shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Commercial Vehicle Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Commercial Vehicle Group has a net margin of 3.98% compared to FreightCar America's net margin of -20.66%. Commercial Vehicle Group's return on equity of 5.17% beat FreightCar America's return on equity.
FreightCar America currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.35%. Commercial Vehicle Group has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 580.27%. Given Commercial Vehicle Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Commercial Vehicle Group is more favorable than FreightCar America.
FreightCar America has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Commercial Vehicle Group has a beta of 2.03, meaning that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, FreightCar America had 1 more articles in the media than Commercial Vehicle Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for FreightCar America and 2 mentions for Commercial Vehicle Group. FreightCar America's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat Commercial Vehicle Group's score of 0.94 indicating that FreightCar America is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Commercial Vehicle Group has higher revenue and earnings than FreightCar America. FreightCar America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Commercial Vehicle Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Commercial Vehicle Group beats FreightCar America on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:CVGI) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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