GNTX vs. LEA, BWA, IEP, ALSN, ALV, MOD, DORM, LCII, VC, and ADNT
Should you be buying Gentex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gentex include Lear (LEA), BorgWarner (BWA), Icahn Enterprises (IEP), Allison Transmission (ALSN), Autoliv (ALV), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), Dorman Products (DORM), LCI Industries (LCII), Visteon (VC), and Adient (ADNT).
Gentex (NASDAQ:GNTX) and Lear (NYSE:LEA) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Gentex has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lear has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gentex currently has a consensus target price of $37.83, indicating a potential upside of 10.46%. Lear has a consensus target price of $162.44, indicating a potential upside of 21.06%. Given Lear's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lear is more favorable than Gentex.
Gentex pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Lear pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Gentex pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lear pays out 31.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
86.8% of Gentex shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Lear shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Gentex shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Lear shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lear has higher revenue and earnings than Gentex. Lear is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gentex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lear received 261 more outperform votes than Gentex when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.68% of users gave Gentex an outperform vote while only 58.78% of users gave Lear an outperform vote.
Gentex has a net margin of 18.63% compared to Lear's net margin of 2.44%. Gentex's return on equity of 19.25% beat Lear's return on equity.
In the previous week, Lear had 21 more articles in the media than Gentex. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Lear and 7 mentions for Gentex. Gentex's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Lear's score of 0.37 indicating that Gentex is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Lear beats Gentex on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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