LVWR vs. FOXF, HOG, BLBD, THRM, WNC, CTOS, DRVN, AXL, XPEL, and KAR
Should you be buying LiveWire Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LiveWire Group include Fox Factory (FOXF), Harley-Davidson (HOG), Blue Bird (BLBD), Gentherm (THRM), Wabash National (WNC), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), Driven Brands (DRVN), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), XPEL (XPEL), and OPENLANE (KAR). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Fox Factory (NASDAQ:FOXF) and LiveWire Group (NYSE:LVWR) 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 risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Fox Factory presently has a consensus price target of $46.83, suggesting a potential upside of 1.17%. LiveWire Group has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.34%. Given Fox Factory's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LiveWire Group is more favorable than Fox Factory.
Fox Factory has a net margin of 5.41% compared to Fox Factory's net margin of -317.96%. LiveWire Group's return on equity of 10.56% beat Fox Factory's return on equity.
Fox Factory received 407 more outperform votes than LiveWire Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.22% of users gave Fox Factory an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave LiveWire Group an outperform vote.
Fox Factory has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LiveWire Group has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
0.9% of LiveWire Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Fox Factory shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of LiveWire Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Fox Factory has higher revenue and earnings than LiveWire Group. LiveWire Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fox Factory, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Fox Factory had 38 more articles in the media than LiveWire Group. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Fox Factory and 0 mentions for LiveWire Group. Fox Factory's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat LiveWire Group's score of 0.14 indicating that LiveWire Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fox Factory beats LiveWire Group on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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