TSLA vs. TM, GM, F, LI, FSS, RUN, NKLA, FSR, STLA, and PCAR
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), Li Auto (LI), Federal Signal (FSS), Sunrun (RUN), Nikola (NKLA), Fisker (FSR), Stellantis (STLA), and PACCAR (PCAR).
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM) are both large-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Tesla currently has a consensus target price of $186.70, suggesting a potential upside of 9.71%. Given Tesla's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Tesla is more favorable than Toyota Motor.
Tesla has a net margin of 14.37% compared to Toyota Motor's net margin of 10.22%. Toyota Motor's return on equity of 14.13% beat Tesla's return on equity.
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 beta of 2.39, indicating that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toyota Motor has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Tesla received 2129 more outperform votes than Toyota Motor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.68% of users gave Tesla an outperform vote while only 59.79% of users gave Toyota Motor an outperform vote.
66.2% of Tesla shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.5% of Toyota Motor shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.1% of Tesla shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Tesla had 310 more articles in the media than Toyota Motor. MarketBeat recorded 338 mentions for Tesla and 28 mentions for Toyota Motor. Toyota Motor's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Tesla's score of -0.04 indicating that Toyota Motor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Tesla beats Toyota Motor on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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