APTV vs. BWA, GNTX, LEA, ALSN, MOD, DORM, LCII, DAN, THRM, and AXL
Should you be buying Aptiv stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aptiv include BorgWarner (BWA), Gentex (GNTX), Lear (LEA), Allison Transmission (ALSN), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), Dorman Products (DORM), LCI Industries (LCII), Dana (DAN), Gentherm (THRM), and American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL). These companies are all part of the "auto parts & equipment" industry.
Aptiv (NYSE:APTV) and BorgWarner (NYSE:BWA) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Aptiv presently has a consensus price target of $108.31, suggesting a potential upside of 30.08%. BorgWarner has a consensus price target of $43.76, suggesting a potential upside of 22.73%. Given Aptiv's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Aptiv is more favorable than BorgWarner.
94.2% of Aptiv shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.7% of BorgWarner shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Aptiv shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of BorgWarner shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Aptiv has a net margin of 14.87% compared to BorgWarner's net margin of 4.02%. BorgWarner's return on equity of 15.33% beat Aptiv's return on equity.
In the previous week, BorgWarner had 7 more articles in the media than Aptiv. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for BorgWarner and 7 mentions for Aptiv. BorgWarner's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Aptiv's score of 1.23 indicating that BorgWarner is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aptiv received 437 more outperform votes than BorgWarner when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.85% of users gave Aptiv an outperform vote while only 59.23% of users gave BorgWarner an outperform vote.
Aptiv has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BorgWarner has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aptiv has higher revenue and earnings than BorgWarner. Aptiv is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BorgWarner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Aptiv beats BorgWarner on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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