DAN vs. THRM, DORM, LCII, MOD, AXL, SMP, ALSN, GNTX, LAZR, and ADNT
Should you be buying Dana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dana include Gentherm (THRM), Dorman Products (DORM), LCI Industries (LCII), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Standard Motor Products (SMP), Allison Transmission (ALSN), Gentex (GNTX), Luminar Technologies (LAZR), and Adient (ADNT). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
Dana vs.
Gentherm (NASDAQ:THRM) and Dana (NYSE:DAN) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Gentherm has a net margin of 2.03% compared to Dana's net margin of -2.38%. Gentherm's return on equity of 9.41% beat Dana's return on equity.
In the previous week, Gentherm had 2 more articles in the media than Dana. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Gentherm and 2 mentions for Dana. Dana's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Gentherm's score of 0.58 indicating that Dana is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gentherm presently has a consensus target price of $74.33, indicating a potential upside of 28.25%. Dana has a consensus target price of $15.75, indicating a potential upside of 12.34%. Given Gentherm's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Gentherm is more favorable than Dana.
Dana received 154 more outperform votes than Gentherm when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.63% of users gave Gentherm an outperform vote while only 61.05% of users gave Dana an outperform vote.
Gentherm has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dana has a beta of 2.38, indicating that its stock price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500.
98.8% of Gentherm shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.1% of Dana shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Gentherm shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Dana shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gentherm has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Dana. Dana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gentherm, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Gentherm beats Dana on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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