PCAR vs. HMC, GM, F, STLA, RACE, LI, CMI, MBLY, GPC, and OSK
Should you be buying PACCAR stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PACCAR include Honda Motor (HMC), General Motors (GM), Ford Motor (F), Stellantis (STLA), Ferrari (RACE), Li Auto (LI), Cummins (CMI), Mobileye Global (MBLY), Genuine Parts (GPC), and Oshkosh (OSK). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Honda Motor (NYSE:HMC) and PACCAR (NASDAQ:PCAR) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
PACCAR has a consensus price target of $112.62, indicating a potential upside of 6.24%. Given Honda Motor's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PACCAR is more favorable than Honda Motor.
In the previous week, PACCAR had 3 more articles in the media than Honda Motor. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for PACCAR and 13 mentions for Honda Motor. Honda Motor's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat PACCAR's score of 0.34 indicating that PACCAR is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PACCAR has a net margin of 14.30% compared to PACCAR's net margin of 5.46%. Honda Motor's return on equity of 31.71% beat PACCAR's return on equity.
Honda Motor pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. PACCAR pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Honda Motor pays out 7.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PACCAR pays out 12.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. PACCAR has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. PACCAR is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
5.3% of Honda Motor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.9% of PACCAR shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Honda Motor shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of PACCAR shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Honda Motor has higher revenue and earnings than PACCAR. Honda Motor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PACCAR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PACCAR received 175 more outperform votes than Honda Motor when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.42% of users gave Honda Motor an outperform vote while only 53.55% of users gave PACCAR an outperform vote.
Honda Motor has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PACCAR has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PACCAR beats Honda Motor on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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