WNC vs. CTOS, XPEL, AXL, LAZR, CHPT, NKLA, LVWR, SMP, EVGO, and MLR
Should you be buying Wabash National stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wabash National include Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), XPEL (XPEL), American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL), Luminar Technologies (LAZR), ChargePoint (CHPT), Nikola (NKLA), LiveWire Group (LVWR), Standard Motor Products (SMP), EVgo (EVGO), and Miller Industries (MLR). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Custom Truck One Source (NYSE:CTOS) and Wabash National (NYSE:WNC) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Wabash National has a net margin of 8.15% compared to Wabash National's net margin of 1.24%. Custom Truck One Source's return on equity of 37.84% beat Wabash National's return on equity.
Wabash National received 342 more outperform votes than Custom Truck One Source when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.44% of users gave Wabash National an outperform vote while only 45.95% of users gave Custom Truck One Source an outperform vote.
Custom Truck One Source currently has a consensus price target of $7.80, indicating a potential upside of 61.49%. Wabash National has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.81%. Given Wabash National's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Custom Truck One Source is more favorable than Wabash National.
Wabash National has higher revenue and earnings than Custom Truck One Source. Wabash National is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Custom Truck One Source, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Custom Truck One Source had 3 more articles in the media than Wabash National. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Custom Truck One Source and 1 mentions for Wabash National. Custom Truck One Source's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Wabash National's score of 0.22 indicating that Wabash National is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Custom Truck One Source has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wabash National has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.1% of Custom Truck One Source shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of Wabash National shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of Custom Truck One Source shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Wabash National shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Wabash National beats Custom Truck One Source on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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