ALSN vs. LEA, MOD, GNTX, BWA, LCII, DORM, DAN, ALV, VC, and ADNT
Should you be buying Allison Transmission stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allison Transmission include Lear (LEA), Modine Manufacturing (MOD), Gentex (GNTX), BorgWarner (BWA), LCI Industries (LCII), Dorman Products (DORM), Dana (DAN), Autoliv (ALV), Visteon (VC), and Adient (ADNT). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicle parts & accessories" industry.
Allison Transmission (NYSE:ALSN) and Lear (NYSE:LEA) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Allison Transmission pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Lear pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Allison Transmission pays out 13.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lear pays out 33.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Allison Transmission presently has a consensus target price of $71.71, suggesting a potential downside of 4.56%. Lear has a consensus target price of $161.44, suggesting a potential upside of 23.54%. Given Lear's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lear is more favorable than Allison Transmission.
Allison Transmission has a net margin of 21.80% compared to Lear's net margin of 2.28%. Allison Transmission's return on equity of 55.83% beat Lear's return on equity.
Lear received 58 more outperform votes than Allison Transmission when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.10% of users gave Allison Transmission an outperform vote while only 58.72% of users gave Lear an outperform vote.
96.9% of Allison Transmission shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Lear shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Allison Transmission shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Lear shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Allison Transmission has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lear. Allison Transmission is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lear had 18 more articles in the media than Allison Transmission. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Lear and 11 mentions for Allison Transmission. Allison Transmission's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Lear's score of 0.31 indicating that Allison Transmission is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Allison Transmission has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lear has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lear beats Allison Transmission on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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