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$143.55 +2.29 (+1.62%)
Closing price 07/25/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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WLFC vs. RUSHA, HEES, DXPE, MRC, BXC, TITN, ACET, URI, FAST, and GWW

Should you be buying Willis Lease Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Willis Lease Finance include Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), H&E Equipment Services (HEES), DXP Enterprises (DXPE), MRC Global (MRC), BlueLinx (BXC), Titan Machinery (TITN), Adicet Bio (ACET), United Rentals (URI), Fastenal (FAST), and W.W. Grainger (GWW). These companies are all part of the "trading companies & distributors" industry.

Willis Lease Finance vs. Its Competitors

Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ:RUSHA) and Willis Lease Finance (NASDAQ:WLFC) are both trading companies & distributors companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and analyst recommendations.

In the previous week, Rush Enterprises had 5 more articles in the media than Willis Lease Finance. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Rush Enterprises and 4 mentions for Willis Lease Finance. Rush Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Willis Lease Finance's score of 1.41 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
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Willis Lease Finance
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Rush Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Willis Lease Finance. Willis Lease Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rush Enterprises, 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$3.5815.31
Willis Lease Finance$569.22M1.93$108.61M$14.609.83

Willis Lease Finance has a net margin of 17.21% compared to Rush Enterprises' net margin of 3.76%. Willis Lease Finance's return on equity of 19.69% beat Rush Enterprises' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Rush Enterprises3.76% 13.82% 6.35%
Willis Lease Finance 17.21%19.69%3.34%

Rush Enterprises has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Willis Lease Finance has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

84.4% of Rush Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.7% of Willis Lease Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 12.3% of Rush Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 53.9% of Willis Lease Finance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Rush Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Willis Lease Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Rush Enterprises pays out 20.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Willis Lease Finance pays out 6.8% 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. Rush Enterprises has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Rush Enterprises is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Rush Enterprises presently has a consensus price target of $61.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.27%. Given Rush Enterprises' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Rush Enterprises is more favorable than Willis Lease Finance.

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
Willis Lease Finance
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Summary

Rush Enterprises beats Willis Lease Finance on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding WLFC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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WLFC vs. The Competition

MetricWillis Lease FinanceTRANS IndustryTransportation SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.08B$6.96B$7.36B$9.50B
Dividend Yield0.71%1.80%699.43%4.01%
P/E Ratio9.8315.8313.2720.05
Price / Sales1.936.70549.8589.38
Price / Cash4.366.497.9858.56
Price / Book1.732.022.205.87
Net Income$108.61M$360.72M$571.39M$258.55M
7 Day Performance3.16%2.68%1.80%3.73%
1 Month Performance-0.82%4.28%5.29%11.75%
1 Year Performance65.93%34.86%-1.37%18.03%

Willis Lease Finance Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WLFC
Willis Lease Finance
3.0465 of 5 stars
$143.55
+1.6%
N/A+66.8%$1.08B$569.22M9.83240
RUSHA
Rush Enterprises
4.5594 of 5 stars
$53.88
+0.4%
$61.00
+13.2%
+14.3%$4.19B$7.78B15.057,388Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
HEES
H&E Equipment Services
2.7522 of 5 stars
$94.64
flat
$71.33
-24.6%
N/A$3.47B$1.46B24.022,380Upcoming Earnings
DXPE
DXP Enterprises
2.7475 of 5 stars
$92.23
+0.8%
$95.00
+3.0%
+108.9%$1.45B$1.87B19.171,843Positive News
MRC
MRC Global
2.0347 of 5 stars
$13.15
+2.8%
$15.67
+19.2%
-1.9%$1.13B$2.95B-119.502,600High Trading Volume
BXC
BlueLinx
2.3713 of 5 stars
$84.02
-2.9%
$110.00
+30.9%
-32.1%$673.80M$2.95B18.752,000Upcoming Earnings
High Trading Volume
TITN
Titan Machinery
3.0647 of 5 stars
$19.55
-1.9%
$21.00
+7.4%
+13.7%$451.21M$2.70B-7.433,648News Coverage
Positive News
ACET
Adicet Bio
2.7977 of 5 stars
$0.78
+3.9%
$7.50
+863.3%
-48.9%$64.40M$24.99M-0.6090News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
URI
United Rentals
4.3369 of 5 stars
$809.74
-0.6%
$768.54
-5.1%
+17.8%$52.63B$15.35B20.9727,900Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
FAST
Fastenal
4.4325 of 5 stars
$45.07
+4.2%
$48.45
+7.5%
+38.3%$51.71B$7.55B44.8523,702Positive News
High Trading Volume
GWW
W.W. Grainger
3.3464 of 5 stars
$1,057.72
-0.2%
$1,116.25
+5.5%
+10.5%$50.81B$17.17B27.1626,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings

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