LCII vs. DORM, DAN, THRM, MOD, ALSN, BWA, LEA, GNTX, ADNT, and VC
Should you be buying LCI Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LCI Industries include Dorman Products (DORM), Dana (DAN), Gentherm (THRM), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), Allison Transmission (ALSN), BorgWarner (BWA), Lear (LEA), Gentex (GNTX), Adient (ADNT), and Visteon (VC). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
LCI Industries (NYSE:LCII) and Dorman Products (NASDAQ:DORM) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
LCI Industries presently has a consensus target price of $104.20, suggesting a potential downside of 5.15%. Dorman Products has a consensus target price of $90.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.35%. Given Dorman Products' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Dorman Products is more favorable than LCI Industries.
99.7% of LCI Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.2% of Dorman Products shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of LCI Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.3% of Dorman Products 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.
LCI Industries has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dorman Products has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dorman Products received 16 more outperform votes than LCI Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.20% of users gave LCI Industries an outperform vote while only 57.25% of users gave Dorman Products an outperform vote.
In the previous week, LCI Industries and LCI Industries both had 8 articles in the media. LCI Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Dorman Products' score of 0.16 indicating that LCI Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dorman Products has a net margin of 6.70% compared to LCI Industries' net margin of 1.70%. Dorman Products' return on equity of 12.92% beat LCI Industries' return on equity.
Dorman Products has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LCI Industries. Dorman Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LCI Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Dorman Products beats LCI Industries on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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