BLBD vs. ATMU, DOOO, PSNY, VC, PHIN, GTX, REVG, ADNT, ADSE, and SERV
Should you be buying Blue Bird stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blue Bird include Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), BRP (DOOO), Polestar Automotive Holding UK (PSNY), Visteon (VC), PHINIA (PHIN), Garrett Motion (GTX), REV Group (REVG), Adient (ADNT), ADS-TEC Energy (ADSE), and Serve Robotics (SERV). These companies are all part of the "automobiles and trucks" industry.
Blue Bird vs.
Blue Bird (NASDAQ:BLBD) and Atmus Filtration Technologies (NYSE:ATMU) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Blue Bird currently has a consensus target price of $58.21, suggesting a potential upside of 66.11%. Atmus Filtration Technologies has a consensus target price of $43.80, suggesting a potential upside of 16.01%. Given Blue Bird's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Blue Bird is more favorable than Atmus Filtration Technologies.
Blue Bird has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atmus Filtration Technologies has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Atmus Filtration Technologies had 6 more articles in the media than Blue Bird. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Atmus Filtration Technologies and 7 mentions for Blue Bird. Blue Bird's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Atmus Filtration Technologies' score of 0.55 indicating that Blue Bird is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Blue Bird received 306 more outperform votes than Atmus Filtration Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.76% of users gave Atmus Filtration Technologies an outperform vote while only 61.91% of users gave Blue Bird an outperform vote.
93.6% of Blue Bird shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.7% of Atmus Filtration Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Blue Bird shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Atmus Filtration Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Atmus Filtration Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Bird. Blue Bird is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atmus Filtration Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atmus Filtration Technologies has a net margin of 10.84% compared to Blue Bird's net margin of 8.05%. Atmus Filtration Technologies' return on equity of 134.28% beat Blue Bird's return on equity.
Summary
Atmus Filtration Technologies beats Blue Bird on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BLBD) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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