DRVN vs. EVGO, KAR, FOXF, PHIN, DAN, GTX, THRM, LVWR, CARG, and ADNT
Should you be buying Driven Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Driven Brands include EVgo (EVGO), OPENLANE (KAR), Fox Factory (FOXF), PHINIA (PHIN), Dana (DAN), Garrett Motion (GTX), Gentherm (THRM), LiveWire Group (LVWR), CarGurus (CARG), and Adient (ADNT). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Driven Brands (NASDAQ:DRVN) and EVgo (NYSE:EVGO) 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 media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.
In the previous week, Driven Brands had 5 more articles in the media than EVgo. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Driven Brands and 24 mentions for EVgo. EVgo's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Driven Brands' score of 0.05 indicating that EVgo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
EVgo has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Driven Brands. EVgo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Driven Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.1% of Driven Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.4% of EVgo shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Driven Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 67.0% of EVgo shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Driven Brands received 22 more outperform votes than EVgo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.00% of users gave Driven Brands an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave EVgo an outperform vote.
Driven Brands presently has a consensus target price of $17.61, suggesting a potential upside of 56.40%. EVgo has a consensus target price of $4.88, suggesting a potential upside of 144.97%. Given EVgo's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe EVgo is more favorable than Driven Brands.
Driven Brands has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EVgo has a beta of 2.53, indicating that its share price is 153% more volatile than the S&P 500.
EVgo has a net margin of -26.36% compared to Driven Brands' net margin of -33.30%. Driven Brands' return on equity of 11.38% beat EVgo's return on equity.
Summary
Driven Brands and EVgo tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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