BWA vs. GNTX, LEA, ALSN, MOD, DORM, LCII, ALV, MGA, VC, and ADNT
Should you be buying BorgWarner stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BorgWarner include Gentex (GNTX), Lear (LEA), Allison Transmission (ALSN), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), Dorman Products (DORM), LCI Industries (LCII), Autoliv (ALV), Magna International (MGA), Visteon (VC), and Adient (ADNT). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
BorgWarner (NYSE:BWA) and Gentex (NASDAQ:GNTX) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Gentex has a net margin of 18.77% compared to BorgWarner's net margin of 4.02%. Gentex's return on equity of 19.19% beat BorgWarner's return on equity.
BorgWarner pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Gentex pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. BorgWarner pays out 16.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gentex pays out 25.4% 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.
BorgWarner received 248 more outperform votes than Gentex when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.64% of users gave Gentex an outperform vote while only 59.23% of users gave BorgWarner an outperform vote.
BorgWarner presently has a consensus target price of $43.76, suggesting a potential upside of 16.58%. Gentex has a consensus target price of $37.83, suggesting a potential upside of 8.75%. Given BorgWarner's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe BorgWarner is more favorable than Gentex.
95.7% of BorgWarner shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.8% of Gentex shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of BorgWarner shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Gentex shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BorgWarner has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gentex has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BorgWarner has higher revenue and earnings than Gentex. BorgWarner is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gentex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BorgWarner had 34 more articles in the media than Gentex. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for BorgWarner and 3 mentions for Gentex. BorgWarner's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Gentex's score of 0.24 indicating that BorgWarner is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
BorgWarner beats Gentex on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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