LI vs. WBC, NAV, STLA, PCAR, GM, F, RIVN, NIO, XPEV, and OSK
Should you be buying Li Auto stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Li Auto include WABCO (WBC), Navistar International (NAV), Stellantis (STLA), PACCAR (PCAR), General Motors (GM), Ford Motor (F), Rivian Automotive (RIVN), NIO (NIO), XPeng (XPEV), and Oshkosh (OSK). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
WABCO (NYSE:WBC) and Li Auto (NASDAQ:LI) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Li Auto has a consensus price target of $40.50, indicating a potential upside of 100.00%. Given WABCO's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Li Auto is more favorable than WABCO.
WABCO has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Li Auto has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Li Auto has higher revenue and earnings than WABCO. Li Auto is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WABCO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
WABCO received 410 more outperform votes than Li Auto when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.34% of users gave WABCO an outperform vote while only 60.75% of users gave Li Auto an outperform vote.
Li Auto has a net margin of 8.73% compared to Li Auto's net margin of 5.78%. WABCO's return on equity of 16.65% beat Li Auto's return on equity.
91.8% of WABCO shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.9% of Li Auto shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of WABCO shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.5% of Li Auto shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Li Auto had 20 more articles in the media than WABCO. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Li Auto and 0 mentions for WABCO. WABCO's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Li Auto's score of 0.00 indicating that Li Auto is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Li Auto beats WABCO on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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