VC vs. LCII, DORM, ADNT, GTX, DAN, PHIN, THRM, MOD, AXL, and ALSN
Should you be buying Visteon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Visteon include LCI Industries (LCII), Dorman Products (DORM), Adient (ADNT), Garrett Motion (GTX), Dana (DAN), PHINIA (PHIN), Gentherm (THRM), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), and Allison Transmission (ALSN). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
LCI Industries (NYSE:LCII) and Visteon (NASDAQ:VC) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
LCI Industries received 261 more outperform votes than Visteon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.20% of users gave LCI Industries an outperform vote while only 32.58% of users gave Visteon an outperform vote.
Visteon has a net margin of 12.60% compared to Visteon's net margin of 1.70%. LCI Industries' return on equity of 53.49% beat Visteon's return on equity.
LCI Industries has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Visteon has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Visteon had 28 more articles in the media than LCI Industries. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Visteon and 2 mentions for LCI Industries. Visteon's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat LCI Industries' score of 0.08 indicating that LCI Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.7% of LCI Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Visteon shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of LCI Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Visteon shares are owned 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.
LCI Industries currently has a consensus price target of $104.20, indicating a potential downside of 2.91%. Visteon has a consensus price target of $142.36, indicating a potential upside of 26.90%. Given LCI Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Visteon is more favorable than LCI Industries.
Visteon has higher revenue and earnings than LCI Industries. Visteon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LCI Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Visteon beats LCI Industries on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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