AXL vs. SMP, THRM, DAN, DORM, LCII, LAZR, HLLY, CPS, PHIN, and GTX
Should you be buying American Axle & Manufacturing stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Axle & Manufacturing include Standard Motor Products (SMP), Gentherm (THRM), Dana (DAN), Dorman Products (DORM), LCI Industries (LCII), Luminar Technologies (LAZR), Holley (HLLY), Cooper-Standard (CPS), PHINIA (PHIN), and Garrett Motion (GTX). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
Standard Motor Products (NYSE:SMP) and American Axle & Manufacturing (NYSE:AXL) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Standard Motor Products has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Axle & Manufacturing has a beta of 2.19, suggesting that its share price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500.
American Axle & Manufacturing has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.63%. Given Standard Motor Products' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe American Axle & Manufacturing is more favorable than Standard Motor Products.
81.3% of Standard Motor Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.4% of American Axle & Manufacturing shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of Standard Motor Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of American Axle & Manufacturing shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, American Axle & Manufacturing had 4 more articles in the media than Standard Motor Products. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for American Axle & Manufacturing and 1 mentions for Standard Motor Products. American Axle & Manufacturing's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Standard Motor Products' score of 0.41 indicating that Standard Motor Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Standard Motor Products has a net margin of 2.28% compared to Standard Motor Products' net margin of -0.13%. American Axle & Manufacturing's return on equity of 9.48% beat Standard Motor Products' return on equity.
Standard Motor Products has higher earnings, but lower revenue than American Axle & Manufacturing. American Axle & Manufacturing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard Motor Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Axle & Manufacturing received 162 more outperform votes than Standard Motor Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.93% of users gave Standard Motor Products an outperform vote while only 57.42% of users gave American Axle & Manufacturing an outperform vote.
Summary
Standard Motor Products beats American Axle & Manufacturing on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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