LEA vs. APTV, BWA, GNTX, ALSN, MOD, DORM, LCII, DAN, THRM, and AXL
Should you be buying Lear stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lear include Aptiv (APTV), BorgWarner (BWA), Gentex (GNTX), 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 Lear (NYSE:LEA) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
94.2% of Aptiv shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Lear shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Aptiv shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Lear shares are owned by company 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.
Aptiv has a beta of 1.87, meaning that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lear has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aptiv has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lear. Aptiv is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aptiv has a net margin of 14.87% compared to Aptiv's net margin of 2.28%. Aptiv's return on equity of 14.47% beat Lear's return on equity.
Aptiv received 421 more outperform votes than Lear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.85% of users gave Aptiv an outperform vote while only 58.72% of users gave Lear an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Aptiv and Aptiv both had 11 articles in the media. Lear's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Aptiv's score of 0.66 indicating that Aptiv is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aptiv currently has a consensus price target of $106.50, suggesting a potential upside of 30.80%. Lear has a consensus price target of $161.44, suggesting a potential upside of 30.89%. Given Aptiv's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lear is more favorable than Aptiv.
Summary
Aptiv beats Lear on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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