Adient (ADNT) Competitors

Adient (NYSE:ADNT) and LCI Industries (NYSE:LCII) 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 profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in ADNT or LCII?

93.2% of Adient shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.2% of LCI Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Adient shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of LCI Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts recommend ADNT or LCII?

Adient currently has a consensus target price of $46.43, indicating a potential upside of 30.27%. LCI Industries has a consensus target price of $117.43, indicating a potential upside of 1.36%. Given Adient's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Adient is more favorable than LCI Industries.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Adient	2 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.22
LCI Industries	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.57

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ADNT or LCII?

Adient received 268 more outperform votes than LCI Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.38% of users gave LCI Industries an outperform vote while only 60.43% of users gave Adient an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Adient	Outperform Votes 568 60.43%	Underperform Votes 372 39.57%
LCI Industries	Outperform Votes 300 64.38%	Underperform Votes 166 35.62%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, ADNT or LCII?

LCI Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Adient. LCI Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Adient	$14.12 billion	0.24	-$120 million	$0.12	297.00
LCI Industries	$5.21 billion	0.56	$394.97 million	$8.07	14.36

Is ADNT or LCII more profitable?

LCI Industries has a net margin of 4.54% compared to Adient's net margin of 0.08%. LCI Industries' return on equity of 14.83% beat Adient's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Adient	0.08%	4.99%	1.32%
LCI Industries	4.54%	14.83%	6.24%

Does the media prefer ADNT or LCII?

In the previous week, Adient had 6 more articles in the media than LCI Industries. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Adient and 3 mentions for LCI Industries. LCI Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Adient's score of 0.12 indicating that LCI Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Adient	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
LCI Industries	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, ADNT or LCII?

Adient has a beta of 2.77, meaning that its share price is 177% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LCI Industries has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

LCI Industries beats Adient on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.