CTOS vs. BLBD, WNC, LVWR, XPEL, AXL, NKLA, THRM, FOXF, SMP, and LAZR
Should you be buying Custom Truck One Source stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Custom Truck One Source include Blue Bird (BLBD), Wabash National (WNC), LiveWire Group (LVWR), XPEL (XPEL), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Nikola (NKLA), Gentherm (THRM), Fox Factory (FOXF), Standard Motor Products (SMP), and Luminar Technologies (LAZR). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Custom Truck One Source (NYSE:CTOS) and Blue Bird (NASDAQ:BLBD) 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 earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Custom Truck One Source has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blue Bird has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.1% of Custom Truck One Source shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Blue Bird shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Custom Truck One Source shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Blue Bird shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Blue Bird has a net margin of 5.04% compared to Custom Truck One Source's net margin of 1.24%. Blue Bird's return on equity of 223.85% beat Custom Truck One Source's return on equity.
Custom Truck One Source presently has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 77.38%. Blue Bird has a consensus price target of $37.25, suggesting a potential downside of 20.27%. Given Custom Truck One Source's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Custom Truck One Source is more favorable than Blue Bird.
Blue Bird received 293 more outperform votes than Custom Truck One Source when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.07% of users gave Blue Bird an outperform vote while only 44.44% of users gave Custom Truck One Source an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Custom Truck One Source had 3 more articles in the media than Blue Bird. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Custom Truck One Source and 21 mentions for Blue Bird. Blue Bird's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Custom Truck One Source's score of -0.12 indicating that Blue Bird is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Custom Truck One Source has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Bird. Blue Bird is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Custom Truck One Source, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Blue Bird beats Custom Truck One Source on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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