LEV vs. NKLA, SHYF, GGR, LOT, KNDI, NIU, FSRN, WKHS, CENN, and REE
Should you be buying Lion Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lion Electric include Nikola (NKLA), The Shyft Group (SHYF), Gogoro (GGR), Lotus Technology (LOT), Kandi Technologies Group (KNDI), Niu Technologies (NIU), Fisker (FSRN), Workhorse Group (WKHS), Cenntro (CENN), and REE Automotive (REE). These companies are all part of the "motor vehicles & car bodies" industry.
Nikola (NASDAQ:NKLA) and Lion Electric (NYSE:LEV) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Nikola presently has a consensus target price of $1.33, suggesting a potential upside of 160.47%. Lion Electric has a consensus target price of $1.74, suggesting a potential upside of 60.88%. Given Lion Electric's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nikola is more favorable than Lion Electric.
Nikola has a beta of 2.1, meaning that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lion Electric has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lion Electric has higher revenue and earnings than Nikola. Lion Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nikola, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nikola has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Nikola's net margin of -43.21%. Nikola's return on equity of -18.99% beat Lion Electric's return on equity.
Nikola received 24 more outperform votes than Lion Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.45% of users gave Nikola an outperform vote while only 46.91% of users gave Lion Electric an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Nikola had 2 more articles in the media than Lion Electric. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Nikola and 2 mentions for Lion Electric. Nikola's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Lion Electric's score of 0.09 indicating that Lion Electric is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
37.4% of Nikola shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.7% of Lion Electric shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Nikola shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of Lion Electric 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
Lion Electric beats Nikola on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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