HMC vs. RACE, STLA, LI, XPEV, RIVN, MGA, ALV, VFS, NIO, and ZK
Should you be buying Honda Motor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Honda Motor include Ferrari (RACE), Stellantis (STLA), Li Auto (LI), XPeng (XPEV), Rivian Automotive (RIVN), Magna International (MGA), Autoliv (ALV), VinFast Auto (VFS), NIO (NIO), and ZEEKR Intelligent Technology (ZK). These companies are all part of the "automobiles and trucks" industry.
Honda Motor vs. Its Competitors
Ferrari (NYSE:RACE) and Honda Motor (NYSE:HMC) are both large-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ferrari presently has a consensus target price of $526.25, suggesting a potential upside of 7.91%. Given Ferrari's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Ferrari is more favorable than Honda Motor.
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 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.
In the previous week, Ferrari had 30 more articles in the media than Honda Motor. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for Ferrari and 11 mentions for Honda Motor. Ferrari's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Honda Motor's score of 0.16 indicating that Ferrari is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ferrari has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Honda Motor has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ferrari beats Honda Motor on 12 of the 16 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 HMC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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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This page (NYSE:HMC) was last updated on 7/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
