AXL vs. DORM, LCII, DAN, THRM, SMP, SRI, SUP, APTV, GNTX, and BWA
Should you be buying American Axle & Manufacturing stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Axle & Manufacturing include Dorman Products (DORM), LCI Industries (LCII), Dana (DAN), Gentherm (THRM), Standard Motor Products (SMP), Stoneridge (SRI), Superior Industries International (SUP), Aptiv (APTV), Gentex (GNTX), and BorgWarner (BWA). These companies are all part of the "auto parts & equipment" industry.
American Axle & Manufacturing (NYSE:AXL) and Dorman Products (NASDAQ:DORM) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Dorman Products has a net margin of 8.10% compared to American Axle & Manufacturing's net margin of -0.13%. Dorman Products' return on equity of 14.61% beat American Axle & Manufacturing's return on equity.
American Axle & Manufacturing has a beta of 2.04, meaning that its stock price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dorman Products has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
American Axle & Manufacturing presently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.80%. Dorman Products has a consensus target price of $103.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.58%. Given American Axle & Manufacturing's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe American Axle & Manufacturing is more favorable than Dorman Products.
Dorman Products has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Axle & Manufacturing. American Axle & Manufacturing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dorman Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, American Axle & Manufacturing had 3 more articles in the media than Dorman Products. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for American Axle & Manufacturing and 6 mentions for Dorman Products. American Axle & Manufacturing's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Dorman Products' score of 0.52 indicating that American Axle & Manufacturing is being referred to more favorably in the media.
91.4% of American Axle & Manufacturing shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of Dorman Products shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of American Axle & Manufacturing shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.0% of Dorman Products 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.
American Axle & Manufacturing received 127 more outperform votes than Dorman Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.34% of users gave American Axle & Manufacturing an outperform vote while only 57.30% of users gave Dorman Products an outperform vote.
Summary
Dorman Products beats American Axle & Manufacturing on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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