VC vs. MTOR, ADNT, DAN, ALV, BWA, GNTX, IEP, LEA, ALSN, and MOD
Should you be buying Visteon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Visteon include Meritor (MTOR), Adient (ADNT), Dana (DAN), Autoliv (ALV), BorgWarner (BWA), Gentex (GNTX), Icahn Enterprises (IEP), Lear (LEA), Allison Transmission (ALSN), and Modine Manufacturing (MOD).
Meritor (NYSE:MTOR) and Visteon (NASDAQ:VC) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Meritor has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Visteon has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Meritor received 412 more outperform votes than Visteon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.17% of users gave Meritor an outperform vote while only 32.33% of users gave Visteon an outperform vote.
96.3% of Meritor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Visteon shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Meritor shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Visteon shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Visteon has a net margin of 12.60% compared to Visteon's net margin of 5.84%. Meritor's return on equity of 53.49% beat Visteon's return on equity.
Visteon has a consensus price target of $141.75, suggesting a potential upside of 27.28%. Given Meritor's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Visteon is more favorable than Meritor.
In the previous week, Visteon had 3 more articles in the media than Meritor. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Visteon and 0 mentions for Meritor. Meritor's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Visteon's score of 0.25 indicating that Visteon is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Visteon has higher revenue and earnings than Meritor. Visteon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Meritor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Visteon beats Meritor on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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