LCII vs. DORM, DAN, THRM, AXL, MOD, ALSN, LEA, GNTX, BWA, and ADNT
Should you be buying LCI Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LCI Industries include Dorman Products (DORM), Dana (DAN), Gentherm (THRM), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), Allison Transmission (ALSN), Lear (LEA), Gentex (GNTX), BorgWarner (BWA), and Adient (ADNT). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
LCI Industries (NYSE:LCII) and Dorman Products (NASDAQ:DORM) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
LCI Industries has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dorman Products has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, LCI Industries had 11 more articles in the media than Dorman Products. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for LCI Industries and 10 mentions for Dorman Products. LCI Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Dorman Products' score of 0.72 indicating that LCI Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
LCI Industries presently has a consensus target price of $104.80, indicating a potential downside of 4.66%. Dorman Products has a consensus target price of $103.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.78%. Given Dorman Products' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dorman Products is more favorable than LCI Industries.
Dorman Products received 17 more outperform votes than LCI Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.07% of users gave LCI Industries an outperform vote while only 57.22% of users gave Dorman Products an outperform vote.
99.7% of LCI Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of Dorman Products shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of LCI Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.0% of Dorman Products shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Dorman Products has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LCI Industries. Dorman Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LCI Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dorman Products has a net margin of 8.10% compared to LCI Industries' net margin of 2.47%. Dorman Products' return on equity of 14.61% beat LCI Industries' return on equity.
Summary
Dorman Products beats LCI Industries on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LCII and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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