SMP vs. DAN, THRM, AXL, SRI, SUP, APTV, GNTX, BWA, ALSN, and LEA
Should you be buying Standard Motor Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Standard Motor Products include Dana (DAN), Gentherm (THRM), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Stoneridge (SRI), Superior Industries International (SUP), Aptiv (APTV), Gentex (GNTX), BorgWarner (BWA), Allison Transmission (ALSN), and Lear (LEA). These companies are all part of the "auto parts & equipment" industry.
Standard Motor Products (NYSE:SMP) and Dana (NYSE:DAN) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Standard Motor Products has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dana has a beta of 2.33, indicating that its share price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Standard Motor Products pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Dana pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Standard Motor Products pays out 83.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dana pays out 444.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Standard Motor Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Standard Motor Products currently has a consensus price target of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.43%. Dana has a consensus price target of $15.50, indicating a potential upside of 30.03%. Given Dana's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Dana is more favorable than Standard Motor Products.
Standard Motor Products has a net margin of 2.28% compared to Dana's net margin of 0.12%. Standard Motor Products' return on equity of 9.48% beat Dana's return on equity.
81.3% of Standard Motor Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of Dana shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of Standard Motor Products shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Dana 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.
Dana received 246 more outperform votes than Standard Motor Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.01% of users gave Standard Motor Products an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Dana an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Standard Motor Products and Standard Motor Products both had 8 articles in the media. Standard Motor Products' average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Dana's score of -0.07 indicating that Standard Motor Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dana has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Motor Products. Standard Motor Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Standard Motor Products beats Dana on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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