HMC vs. RACE, LI, STLA, XPEV, RIVN, MGA, ALV, VFS, ZK, and LCID
Should you be buying Honda Motor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Honda Motor include Ferrari (RACE), Li Auto (LI), Stellantis (STLA), XPeng (XPEV), Rivian Automotive (RIVN), Magna International (MGA), Autoliv (ALV), VinFast Auto (VFS), ZEEKR Intelligent Technology (ZK), and Lucid Group (LCID). These companies are all part of the "automobiles and trucks" industry.
Honda Motor vs. Its Competitors
Honda Motor (NYSE:HMC) and Ferrari (NYSE:RACE) are both large-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Ferrari has a consensus price target of $526.25, suggesting a potential upside of 7.18%. Given Ferrari's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ferrari is more favorable than Honda Motor.
Honda Motor has higher revenue and earnings than Ferrari. Honda Motor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ferrari, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
5.3% of Honda Motor shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Honda Motor shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Honda Motor pays an annual dividend of $1.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Ferrari pays an annual dividend of $3.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Honda Motor pays out 31.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ferrari pays out 35.8% 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. Ferrari has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Honda Motor is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ferrari has a net margin of 23.00% compared to Honda Motor's net margin of 3.82%. Ferrari's return on equity of 46.46% beat Honda Motor's return on equity.
Honda Motor has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ferrari has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ferrari had 33 more articles in the media than Honda Motor. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for Ferrari and 13 mentions for Honda Motor. Ferrari's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Honda Motor's score of 0.10 indicating that Ferrari is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ferrari beats Honda Motor on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:HMC) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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