BLBD vs. MLR, WNC, CTOS, LVWR, AXL, NKLA, XPEL, THRM, SMP, and FOXF
Should you be buying Blue Bird stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blue Bird include Miller Industries (MLR), Wabash National (WNC), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), LiveWire Group (LVWR), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Nikola (NKLA), XPEL (XPEL), Gentherm (THRM), Standard Motor Products (SMP), and Fox Factory (FOXF). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Blue Bird (NASDAQ:BLBD) and Miller Industries (NYSE:MLR) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
93.6% of Blue Bird shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.2% of Miller Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Blue Bird shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Miller Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Blue Bird has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Miller Industries has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Miller Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Bird. Miller Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blue Bird, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Miller Industries has a net margin of 5.05% compared to Blue Bird's net margin of 5.04%. Blue Bird's return on equity of 223.85% beat Miller Industries' return on equity.
Blue Bird received 144 more outperform votes than Miller Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.36% of users gave Miller Industries an outperform vote while only 60.91% of users gave Blue Bird an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Blue Bird had 4 more articles in the media than Miller Industries. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Blue Bird and 2 mentions for Miller Industries. Blue Bird's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Miller Industries' score of -0.14 indicating that Blue Bird is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Blue Bird presently has a consensus target price of $35.42, suggesting a potential upside of 9.01%. Given Blue Bird's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Blue Bird is more favorable than Miller Industries.
Summary
Blue Bird beats Miller Industries on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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