EVGO vs. DRVN, PLOW, HLLY, HSAI, MLR, SHYF, LAZR, SMP, CHPT, and SLDP
Should you be buying EVgo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EVgo include Driven Brands (DRVN), Douglas Dynamics (PLOW), Holley (HLLY), Hesai Group (HSAI), Miller Industries (MLR), The Shyft Group (SHYF), Luminar Technologies (LAZR), Standard Motor Products (SMP), ChargePoint (CHPT), and Solid Power (SLDP). 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 better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Driven Brands has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EVgo has a beta of 2.53, suggesting that its stock price is 153% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
EVgo has a net margin of -26.36% compared to EVgo's net margin of -33.30%. EVgo's return on equity of 11.38% beat Driven Brands' return on equity.
77.1% of Driven Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.4% of EVgo shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Driven Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 67.0% of EVgo shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers 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 36.36% of users gave EVgo an outperform vote.
Driven Brands currently has a consensus target price of $17.61, indicating a potential upside of 56.40%. EVgo has a consensus target price of $5.06, indicating a potential upside of 172.91%. Given Driven Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe EVgo is more favorable than Driven Brands.
In the previous week, Driven Brands had 9 more articles in the media than EVgo. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Driven Brands and 24 mentions for EVgo. Driven Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat EVgo's score of 0.05 indicating that EVgo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Driven Brands and EVgo tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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