Head to Head Contrast: Daimler Truck (DTRUY) and The Competition

Daimler Truck (OTCMKTS:DTRUY) is one of 436 publicly-traded companies in the “Machinery” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Daimler Truck to related businesses based on the strength of its valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Daimler Truck and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Daimler Truck	0	3	5	1	2.78
Daimler Truck Competitors	4155	14618	18073	795	2.41

As a group, “Machinery” companies have a potential upside of 29.88%. Given Daimler Truck’s rivals higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Daimler Truck has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Volatility and Risk

Daimler Truck has a beta of 0.06, meaning that its share price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Daimler Truck’s rivals have a beta of 4.69, meaning that their average share price is 369% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

51.7% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by institutional investors. 14.2% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Daimler Truck pays an annual dividend of $0.79 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Daimler Truck pays out 158.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. As a group, “Machinery” companies pay a dividend yield of 2.8% and pay out 24.6% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Profitability

This table compares Daimler Truck and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Daimler Truck	5.87%	4.79%	1.46%
Daimler Truck Competitors	-1,044.76%	-15.22%	0.51%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Daimler Truck and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Daimler Truck	$51.50 billion	$2.23 billion	46.12
Daimler Truck Competitors	$4.67 billion	$364.64 million	3.10

Daimler Truck has higher revenue and earnings than its rivals. Daimler Truck is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Daimler Truck beats its rivals on 10 of the 15 factors compared.

About Daimler Truck

Daimler Truck Holding AG manufactures and sells commercial trucks. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Stuttgart, Germany.