KAR vs. DAN, PHIN, FOXF, GTX, THRM, XPEL, LVWR, DRVN, CTOS, and CARG
Should you be buying OPENLANE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OPENLANE include Dana (DAN), PHINIA (PHIN), Fox Factory (FOXF), Garrett Motion (GTX), Gentherm (THRM), XPEL (XPEL), LiveWire Group (LVWR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), and CarGurus (CARG). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Dana (NYSE:DAN) and OPENLANE (NYSE:KAR) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Dana presently has a consensus price target of $16.43, suggesting a potential upside of 31.64%. OPENLANE has a consensus price target of $19.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.94%. Given OPENLANE's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Dana is more favorable than OPENLANE.
Dana has a beta of 2.49, meaning that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OPENLANE has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
OPENLANE received 105 more outperform votes than Dana when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.01% of users gave OPENLANE an outperform vote while only 60.05% of users gave Dana an outperform vote.
Dana has higher revenue and earnings than OPENLANE. OPENLANE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dana has a net margin of 0.36% compared to Dana's net margin of -9.37%. Dana's return on equity of 7.49% beat OPENLANE's return on equity.
96.8% of Dana shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of OPENLANE shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Dana shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of OPENLANE shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Dana had 6 more articles in the media than OPENLANE. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Dana and 3 mentions for OPENLANE. OPENLANE's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Dana's score of 0.36 indicating that Dana is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dana pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. OPENLANE pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Dana pays out 153.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. OPENLANE pays out -41.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. OPENLANE is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
OPENLANE beats Dana on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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