ALSN vs. APTV, BWA, GNTX, LEA, MOD, DORM, LCII, DAN, THRM, and AXL
Should you be buying Allison Transmission stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allison Transmission include Aptiv (APTV), BorgWarner (BWA), Gentex (GNTX), Lear (LEA), 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.
Allison Transmission (NYSE:ALSN) and Aptiv (NYSE:APTV) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Allison Transmission has a net margin of 21.80% compared to Aptiv's net margin of 14.87%. Allison Transmission's return on equity of 55.83% beat Aptiv's return on equity.
Allison Transmission currently has a consensus price target of $71.71, indicating a potential downside of 5.40%. Aptiv has a consensus price target of $108.31, indicating a potential upside of 30.08%. Given Aptiv's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Aptiv is more favorable than Allison Transmission.
Aptiv received 478 more outperform votes than Allison Transmission when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.85% of users gave Aptiv an outperform vote while only 63.14% of users gave Allison Transmission an outperform vote.
96.9% of Allison Transmission shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Aptiv shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Allison Transmission shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Aptiv shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Aptiv has higher revenue and earnings than Allison Transmission. Aptiv is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allison Transmission, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Allison Transmission had 1 more articles in the media than Aptiv. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Allison Transmission and 7 mentions for Aptiv. Aptiv's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Allison Transmission's score of 0.72 indicating that Aptiv is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Allison Transmission has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aptiv has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Aptiv beats Allison Transmission on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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