ADNT vs. LCII, DORM, GTX, DAN, PHIN, VC, THRM, AXL, SMP, and LAZR
Should you be buying Adient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Adient include LCI Industries (LCII), Dorman Products (DORM), Garrett Motion (GTX), Dana (DAN), PHINIA (PHIN), Visteon (VC), Gentherm (THRM), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Standard Motor Products (SMP), and Luminar Technologies (LAZR). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
Adient (NYSE:ADNT) and LCI Industries (NYSE:LCII) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
LCI Industries has a net margin of 1.70% compared to Adient's net margin of 1.04%. Adient's return on equity of 8.72% beat LCI Industries' return on equity.
Adient presently has a consensus price target of $39.63, indicating a potential upside of 38.84%. LCI Industries has a consensus price target of $104.20, indicating a potential downside of 6.29%. Given Adient's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Adient is more favorable than LCI Industries.
In the previous week, Adient had 17 more articles in the media than LCI Industries. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Adient and 10 mentions for LCI Industries. LCI Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Adient's score of 0.24 indicating that LCI Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Adient has higher revenue and earnings than LCI Industries. Adient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LCI Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Adient received 275 more outperform votes than LCI Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.20% of users gave LCI Industries an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave Adient an outperform vote.
Adient has a beta of 2.39, suggesting that its stock price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LCI Industries has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
92.4% of Adient shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of LCI Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Adient shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of LCI Industries shares are owned 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.
Summary
Adient beats LCI Industries on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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