HMC vs. F, STLA, GM, PCAR, LI, RIVN, TM, MBLY, CMI, and CNHI
Should you be buying Honda Motor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Honda Motor include Ford Motor (F), Stellantis (STLA), General Motors (GM), PACCAR (PCAR), Li Auto (LI), Rivian Automotive (RIVN), Toyota Motor (TM), Mobileye Global (MBLY), Cummins (CMI), and CNH Industrial (CNHI). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Honda Motor vs.
Ford Motor (NYSE:F) and Honda Motor (NYSE:HMC) are both large-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, community ranking and media sentiment.
Ford Motor pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Honda Motor pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Ford Motor pays out 84.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Honda Motor pays out 22.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ford Motor has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Ford Motor is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Ford Motor had 3 more articles in the media than Honda Motor. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Ford Motor and 8 mentions for Honda Motor. Honda Motor's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Ford Motor's score of 0.65 indicating that Honda Motor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Honda Motor has a net margin of 4.04% compared to Ford Motor's net margin of 1.75%. Ford Motor's return on equity of 19.99% beat Honda Motor's return on equity.
Honda Motor has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ford Motor. Honda Motor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ford Motor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ford Motor has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Honda Motor has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ford Motor currently has a consensus price target of $14.78, indicating a potential upside of 9.43%. Honda Motor has a consensus price target of $31.51, indicating a potential upside of 5.28%. Given Ford Motor's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ford Motor is more favorable than Honda Motor.
49.7% of Ford Motor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.5% of Honda Motor shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ford Motor shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Honda Motor 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.
Ford Motor received 1363 more outperform votes than Honda Motor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.74% of users gave Ford Motor an outperform vote while only 61.37% of users gave Honda Motor an outperform vote.
Summary
Ford Motor beats Honda Motor on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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