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RUSHA vs. FELE, LECO, RUSHB, UFPI, AIT, FBIN, ITT, NPO, URI, and WCC

Should you be buying Rush Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rush Enterprises include Franklin Electric (FELE), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), UFP Industries (UFPI), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN), ITT (ITT), Enpro (NPO), United Rentals (URI), and WESCO International (WCC).

Rush Enterprises vs. Its Competitors

Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ:RUSHA) and Franklin Electric (NASDAQ:FELE) are related mid-cap companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Rush Enterprises has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Electric has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Rush Enterprises presently has a consensus price target of $61.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.75%. Franklin Electric has a consensus price target of $107.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.73%. Given Franklin Electric's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Franklin Electric is more favorable than Rush Enterprises.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Rush Enterprises
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Franklin Electric
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Rush Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Franklin Electric pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Rush Enterprises pays out 20.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franklin Electric pays out 27.4% 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. Rush Enterprises has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Franklin Electric has raised its dividend for 33 consecutive years. Rush Enterprises is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

In the previous week, Franklin Electric had 17 more articles in the media than Rush Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Franklin Electric and 12 mentions for Rush Enterprises. Rush Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Franklin Electric's score of 0.46 indicating that Rush Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Rush Enterprises
4 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Franklin Electric
5 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Rush Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Franklin Electric. Rush Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Rush Enterprises$7.80B0.55$304.15M$3.5115.84
Franklin Electric$2.02B2.07$180.31M$3.8724.31

84.4% of Rush Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.0% of Franklin Electric shares are held by institutional investors. 12.3% of Rush Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Franklin Electric shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Franklin Electric has a net margin of 8.71% compared to Rush Enterprises' net margin of 3.73%. Franklin Electric's return on equity of 14.05% beat Rush Enterprises' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Rush Enterprises3.73% 13.29% 6.14%
Franklin Electric 8.71%14.05%9.47%

Summary

Franklin Electric beats Rush Enterprises on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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RUSHA vs. The Competition

MetricRush EnterprisesRET/WHLSL AUTO/TRUCK IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$4.34B$4.43B$26.50B$9.54B
Dividend Yield1.31%1.48%172.74%4.14%
P/E Ratio15.8813.5828.5923.79
Price / Sales0.550.488.5195.98
Price / Cash8.0511.8957.6858.35
Price / Book1.991.605.565.60
Net Income$304.15M$375.51M$877.46M$265.17M
7 Day Performance4.64%3.08%-1.05%-0.94%
1 Month Performance1.91%-9.06%-1.43%4.95%
1 Year Performance8.52%5.62%21.70%23.30%

Rush Enterprises Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RUSHA
Rush Enterprises
4.4463 of 5 stars
$55.58
-1.6%
$61.00
+9.7%
+12.5%$4.34B$7.80B15.887,388Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
FELE
Franklin Electric
4.6954 of 5 stars
$93.76
+0.7%
$107.00
+14.1%
-1.9%$4.25B$2.02B24.236,300Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
LECO
Lincoln Electric
3.8237 of 5 stars
$243.84
+1.1%
$231.40
-5.1%
+28.7%$13.31B$4.01B27.4012,000Earnings Report
RUSHB
Rush Enterprises
2.6827 of 5 stars
$53.38
+1.9%
N/A+22.9%$4.07B$7.80B15.218,040Positive News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
UFPI
UFP Industries
4.5889 of 5 stars
$98.52
+0.8%
$134.00
+36.0%
-15.0%$5.90B$6.65B17.1015,000Short Interest ↑
AIT
Applied Industrial Technologies
3.7627 of 5 stars
$267.27
+1.2%
$285.00
+6.6%
+39.9%$10.06B$4.48B26.836,500Positive News
FBIN
Fortune Brands Innovations
4.2146 of 5 stars
$56.30
+0.8%
$75.91
+34.8%
-22.9%$6.71B$4.50B17.7111,000Positive News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
ITT
ITT
4.2519 of 5 stars
$166.88
+1.7%
$179.22
+7.4%
+32.8%$12.80B$3.63B26.2411,700Positive News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
NPO
Enpro
3.4551 of 5 stars
$215.40
+2.6%
$202.50
-6.0%
+53.9%$4.42B$1.05B53.583,500Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Upgrade
URI
United Rentals
4.654 of 5 stars
$868.56
+1.0%
$830.71
-4.4%
+29.8%$55.31B$15.35B22.4627,900Positive News
WCC
WESCO International
3.7871 of 5 stars
$208.88
+2.7%
$220.11
+5.4%
+37.6%$9.93B$21.82B16.3620,000Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:RUSHA) was last updated on 8/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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