HMC vs. PCAR, GM, F, STLA, LI, CMI, MBLY, GPC, RIVN, and NIO
Should you be buying Honda Motor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Honda Motor include PACCAR (PCAR), General Motors (GM), Ford Motor (F), Stellantis (STLA), Li Auto (LI), Cummins (CMI), Mobileye Global (MBLY), Genuine Parts (GPC), Rivian Automotive (RIVN), and NIO (NIO). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Honda Motor (NYSE:HMC) and PACCAR (NASDAQ:PCAR) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
PACCAR has a consensus target price of $112.62, suggesting a potential upside of 4.88%. Given PACCAR's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PACCAR is more favorable than Honda Motor.
5.3% of Honda Motor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.9% of PACCAR shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Honda Motor shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of PACCAR shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PACCAR has a net margin of 14.30% compared to Honda Motor's net margin of 5.05%. PACCAR's return on equity of 31.71% beat Honda Motor's return on equity.
Honda Motor has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PACCAR has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Honda Motor pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. PACCAR pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Honda Motor pays out 21.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PACCAR pays out 11.2% 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.
Honda Motor has higher revenue and earnings than PACCAR. Honda Motor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PACCAR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PACCAR had 8 more articles in the media than Honda Motor. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for PACCAR and 4 mentions for Honda Motor. PACCAR's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Honda Motor's score of 0.53 indicating that PACCAR is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PACCAR received 175 more outperform votes than Honda Motor when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.42% of users gave Honda Motor an outperform vote while only 53.55% of users gave PACCAR an outperform vote.
Summary
PACCAR beats Honda Motor on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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