LAZR vs. SMP, AXL, HLLY, CPS, CVGI, AEVA, THRM, PHIN, DAN, and GTX
Should you be buying Luminar Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luminar Technologies include Standard Motor Products (SMP), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Holley (HLLY), Cooper-Standard (CPS), Commercial Vehicle Group (CVGI), Aeva Technologies (AEVA), Gentherm (THRM), PHINIA (PHIN), Dana (DAN), and Garrett Motion (GTX). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
Standard Motor Products (NYSE:SMP) and Luminar Technologies (NASDAQ:LAZR) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking and risk.
Standard Motor Products has a net margin of 2.28% compared to Standard Motor Products' net margin of -721.70%. Luminar Technologies' return on equity of 9.48% beat Standard Motor Products' return on equity.
Standard Motor Products received 255 more outperform votes than Luminar Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.93% of users gave Standard Motor Products an outperform vote while only 38.55% of users gave Luminar Technologies an outperform vote.
Luminar Technologies has a consensus price target of $4.45, suggesting a potential upside of 160.23%. Given Standard Motor Products' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Luminar Technologies is more favorable than Standard Motor Products.
Standard Motor Products has higher revenue and earnings than Luminar Technologies. Luminar Technologies 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.
81.3% of Standard Motor Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.0% of Luminar Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of Standard Motor Products shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.3% of Luminar Technologies shares are held by 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.
Standard Motor Products has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Luminar Technologies has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Luminar Technologies had 21 more articles in the media than Standard Motor Products. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Luminar Technologies and 9 mentions for Standard Motor Products. Standard Motor Products' average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Luminar Technologies' score of -0.02 indicating that Luminar Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Standard Motor Products beats Luminar Technologies on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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