ALSN vs. LEA, MOD, GNTX, BWA, LCII, DORM, DAN, ALV, VC, and ADNT
Should you be buying Allison Transmission stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allison Transmission include Lear (LEA), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), Gentex (GNTX), BorgWarner (BWA), LCI Industries (LCII), Dorman Products (DORM), Dana (DAN), Autoliv (ALV), Visteon (VC), and Adient (ADNT). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
Lear (NYSE:LEA) and Allison Transmission (NYSE:ALSN) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and valuation.
In the previous week, Lear had 11 more articles in the media than Allison Transmission. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Lear and 11 mentions for Allison Transmission. Lear's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Allison Transmission's score of 0.30 indicating that Allison Transmission is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Allison Transmission has a net margin of 21.80% compared to Allison Transmission's net margin of 2.28%. Lear's return on equity of 55.83% beat Allison Transmission's return on equity.
Lear has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allison Transmission has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.0% of Lear shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.9% of Allison Transmission shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Lear shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Allison Transmission shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Allison Transmission has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lear. Allison Transmission is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lear received 58 more outperform votes than Allison Transmission when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.10% of users gave Allison Transmission an outperform vote while only 58.72% of users gave Lear an outperform vote.
Lear pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Allison Transmission pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Lear pays out 33.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Allison Transmission pays out 13.4% 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. Allison Transmission has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Lear presently has a consensus price target of $161.44, indicating a potential upside of 23.49%. Allison Transmission has a consensus price target of $71.71, indicating a potential downside of 4.19%. Given Allison Transmission's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lear is more favorable than Allison Transmission.
Summary
Lear beats Allison Transmission on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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