PII vs. DOOO, MOD, HOG, LCID, GT, XPEV, NIO, VC, ALSN, and LCII
Should you be buying Polaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Polaris include BRP (DOOO), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), Harley-Davidson (HOG), Lucid Group (LCID), Goodyear Tire & Rubber (GT), XPeng (XPEV), NIO (NIO), Visteon (VC), Allison Transmission (ALSN), and LCI Industries (LCII). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Polaris (NYSE:PII) and BRP (NASDAQ:DOOO) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.
BRP has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Polaris. BRP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Polaris, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BRP has a net margin of 7.20% compared to Polaris' net margin of 4.63%. BRP's return on equity of 120.39% beat Polaris' return on equity.
In the previous week, Polaris had 40 more articles in the media than BRP. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Polaris and 3 mentions for BRP. BRP's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Polaris' score of 0.08 indicating that BRP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Polaris has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BRP has a beta of 2.12, indicating that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Polaris received 498 more outperform votes than BRP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.83% of users gave Polaris an outperform vote while only 56.42% of users gave BRP an outperform vote.
Polaris currently has a consensus target price of $100.27, indicating a potential upside of 19.64%. BRP has a consensus target price of $111.75, indicating a potential upside of 62.57%. Given BRP's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BRP is more favorable than Polaris.
88.1% of Polaris shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Polaris shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Polaris pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. BRP pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Polaris pays out 38.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BRP pays out 8.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
BRP beats Polaris on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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