WGO vs. THO, NKLA, TSLA, GM, F, ALTR, AZEK, SSD, SUM, and LPX
Should you be buying Winnebago Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Winnebago Industries include THOR Industries (THO), Nikola (NKLA), Tesla (TSLA), General Motors (GM), Ford Motor (F), Altair Engineering (ALTR), AZEK (AZEK), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), Summit Materials (SUM), and Louisiana-Pacific (LPX).
Winnebago Industries (NYSE:WGO) and THOR Industries (NYSE:THO) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
THOR Industries received 213 more outperform votes than Winnebago Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.37% of users gave THOR Industries an outperform vote while only 63.41% of users gave Winnebago Industries an outperform vote.
96.7% of THOR Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Winnebago Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of THOR Industries shares are owned 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.
Winnebago Industries has a net margin of 3.70% compared to THOR Industries' net margin of 2.62%. Winnebago Industries' return on equity of 14.15% beat THOR Industries' return on equity.
Winnebago Industries has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, THOR Industries has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Winnebago Industries presently has a consensus target price of $73.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.65%. THOR Industries has a consensus target price of $103.17, indicating a potential upside of 3.96%. Given Winnebago Industries' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Winnebago Industries is more favorable than THOR Industries.
In the previous week, THOR Industries had 13 more articles in the media than Winnebago Industries. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for THOR Industries and 1 mentions for Winnebago Industries. THOR Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Winnebago Industries' score of 0.15 indicating that THOR Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Winnebago Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. THOR Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Winnebago Industries pays out 37.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. THOR Industries pays out 38.1% 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. Winnebago Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
THOR Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Winnebago Industries. Winnebago Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than THOR Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
THOR Industries beats Winnebago Industries on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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