WNC vs. CTOS, XPEL, BLBD, LVWR, NKLA, LAZR, PHIN, EVGO, CHPT, and KAR
Should you be buying Wabash National stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wabash National include Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), XPEL (XPEL), Blue Bird (BLBD), LiveWire Group (LVWR), Nikola (NKLA), Luminar Technologies (LAZR), PHINIA (PHIN), EVgo (EVGO), ChargePoint (CHPT), and OPENLANE (KAR). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Custom Truck One Source (NYSE:CTOS) and Wabash National (NYSE:WNC) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.
91.9% of Custom Truck One Source shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of Wabash National shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Custom Truck One Source shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Wabash National shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Wabash National has higher revenue and earnings than Custom Truck One Source. Wabash National is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Custom Truck One Source, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Custom Truck One Source currently has a consensus price target of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 56.83%. Wabash National has a consensus price target of $24.00, suggesting a potential downside of 15.70%. Given Wabash National's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Custom Truck One Source is more favorable than Wabash National.
Wabash National has a net margin of 9.12% compared to Wabash National's net margin of 2.72%. Custom Truck One Source's return on equity of 46.87% beat Wabash National's return on equity.
Wabash National received 342 more outperform votes than Custom Truck One Source when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.50% of users gave Wabash National an outperform vote while only 44.12% of users gave Custom Truck One Source an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Wabash National had 1 more articles in the media than Custom Truck One Source. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Wabash National and 6 mentions for Custom Truck One Source. Custom Truck One Source's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Wabash National's score of 0.08 indicating that Wabash National is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Custom Truck One Source has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wabash National has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Wabash National beats Custom Truck One Source on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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