WKHS vs. LOT, LEV, KNDI, NIU, FSRN, CENN, REE, FFIE, MULN, and VEV
Should you be buying Workhorse Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Workhorse Group include Lotus Technology (LOT), Lion Electric (LEV), Kandi Technologies Group (KNDI), Niu Technologies (NIU), Fisker (FSRN), Cenntro (CENN), REE Automotive (REE), Faraday Future Intelligent Electric (FFIE), Mullen Automotive (MULN), and Vicinity Motor (VEV). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicles & car bodies" industry.
Lotus Technology (NASDAQ:LOT) and Workhorse Group (NASDAQ:WKHS) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
Lotus Technology has a beta of -0.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Workhorse Group has a beta of 2.54, meaning that its stock price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lotus Technology currently has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential downside of 28.64%. Workhorse Group has a consensus price target of $1.50, suggesting a potential upside of 669.63%. Given Lotus Technology's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Workhorse Group is more favorable than Lotus Technology.
Workhorse Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lotus Technology. Lotus Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Workhorse Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
63.4% of Lotus Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.0% of Workhorse Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Lotus Technology shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Workhorse Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Workhorse Group received 440 more outperform votes than Lotus Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.01% of users gave Workhorse Group an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Lotus Technology an outperform vote.
Lotus Technology has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Lotus Technology's net margin of -1,005.23%. Workhorse Group's return on equity of -0.62% beat Lotus Technology's return on equity.
In the previous week, Lotus Technology had 6 more articles in the media than Workhorse Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Lotus Technology and 5 mentions for Workhorse Group. Lotus Technology's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Workhorse Group's score of 0.34 indicating that Workhorse Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Workhorse Group beats Lotus Technology on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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