QS vs. VC, LCII, PSNY, DORM, ADNT, CARG, GT, GTX, DAN, and PHIN
Should you be buying QuantumScape stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QuantumScape include Visteon (VC), LCI Industries (LCII), Polestar Automotive Holding UK (PSNY), Dorman Products (DORM), Adient (ADNT), CarGurus (CARG), Goodyear Tire & Rubber (GT), Garrett Motion (GTX), Dana (DAN), and PHINIA (PHIN). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
QuantumScape (NYSE:QS) and Visteon (NASDAQ:VC) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
QuantumScape currently has a consensus target price of $6.09, indicating a potential upside of 8.13%. Visteon has a consensus target price of $141.75, indicating a potential upside of 23.34%. Given Visteon's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Visteon is more favorable than QuantumScape.
29.9% of QuantumScape shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Visteon shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of QuantumScape shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Visteon shares are held 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.
QuantumScape has a beta of 4.74, meaning that its share price is 374% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Visteon has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, QuantumScape had 1 more articles in the media than Visteon. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for QuantumScape and 8 mentions for Visteon. Visteon's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat QuantumScape's score of 0.50 indicating that Visteon is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Visteon has a net margin of 12.60% compared to QuantumScape's net margin of 0.00%. Visteon's return on equity of 53.49% beat QuantumScape's return on equity.
Visteon has higher revenue and earnings than QuantumScape. QuantumScape is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Visteon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Visteon received 25 more outperform votes than QuantumScape when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 32.33% of users gave Visteon an outperform vote while only 29.03% of users gave QuantumScape an outperform vote.
Summary
Visteon beats QuantumScape on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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