PCAR vs. HMC, GM, F, RACE, STLA, LI, CMI, MBLY, GPC, and OSK
Should you be buying PACCAR stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PACCAR include Honda Motor (HMC), General Motors (GM), Ford Motor (F), Ferrari (RACE), Stellantis (STLA), Li Auto (LI), Cummins (CMI), Mobileye Global (MBLY), Genuine Parts (GPC), and Oshkosh (OSK). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Honda Motor (NYSE:HMC) and PACCAR (NASDAQ:PCAR) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
PACCAR received 175 more outperform votes than Honda Motor when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.42% of users gave Honda Motor an outperform vote while only 53.55% of users gave PACCAR an outperform vote.
PACCAR has a consensus target price of $112.62, indicating a potential upside of 7.45%. Given Honda Motor's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PACCAR is more favorable than Honda Motor.
Honda Motor has higher revenue and earnings than PACCAR. Honda Motor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PACCAR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Honda Motor pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. PACCAR pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Honda Motor pays out 21.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PACCAR pays out 11.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. PACCAR has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
5.3% of Honda Motor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.9% of PACCAR shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Honda Motor shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of PACCAR shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Honda Motor has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PACCAR has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PACCAR has a net margin of 14.30% compared to PACCAR's net margin of 5.05%. Honda Motor's return on equity of 31.71% beat PACCAR's return on equity.
In the previous week, PACCAR had 13 more articles in the media than Honda Motor. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for PACCAR and 16 mentions for Honda Motor. Honda Motor's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat PACCAR's score of 0.39 indicating that PACCAR is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
PACCAR beats Honda Motor on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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