TSLA vs. TM, GM, F, FSR, NKLA, STLA, HMC, PCAR, LI, and LCID
Should you be buying Tesla stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tesla include Toyota Motor (TM), General Motors (GM), Ford Motor (F), Fisker (FSR), Nikola (NKLA), Stellantis (STLA), Honda Motor (HMC), PACCAR (PCAR), Li Auto (LI), and Lucid Group (LCID). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicles & car bodies" industry.
Tesla vs.
Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM) and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) are both large-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
Toyota Motor currently has a consensus price target of $1,239.71, suggesting a potential upside of 742.42%. Tesla has a consensus price target of $211.57, suggesting a potential upside of 18.93%. Given Toyota Motor's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Toyota Motor is more favorable than Tesla.
In the previous week, Tesla had 165 more articles in the media than Toyota Motor. MarketBeat recorded 190 mentions for Tesla and 25 mentions for Toyota Motor. Toyota Motor's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Tesla's score of 0.19 indicating that Toyota Motor is being referred to more favorably in the media.
43.0% of Tesla shares are held by institutional investors. 25.1% of Tesla shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Tesla received 2080 more outperform votes than Toyota Motor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.18% of users gave Tesla an outperform vote while only 60.06% of users gave Toyota Motor an outperform vote.
Toyota Motor has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tesla has a beta of 2.02, indicating that its stock price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Toyota Motor has higher revenue and earnings than Tesla. Toyota Motor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tesla, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tesla has a net margin of 15.41% compared to Toyota Motor's net margin of 7.54%. Tesla's return on equity of 31.71% beat Toyota Motor's return on equity.
Summary
Tesla beats Toyota Motor on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TSLA and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
