Contrasting Daimler Truck (DTRUY) and The Competition

Daimler Truck (OTCMKTS:DTRUY) is one of 434 publicly-traded companies in the “Machinery” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Daimler Truck to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

52.2% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by institutional investors. 14.3% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Daimler Truck and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Daimler Truck	0	3	5	1	2.78
Daimler Truck Competitors	4115	14553	17978	787	2.41

As a group, “Machinery” companies have a potential upside of 31.03%. Given Daimler Truck’s peers higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Daimler Truck has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Daimler Truck and its peers’ 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	-1,040.92%	-9.38%	0.94%

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 2.7% and pay out 27.5% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Daimler Truck and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Daimler Truck	$51.50 billion	$2.23 billion	45.88
Daimler Truck Competitors	$4.73 billion	$369.35 million	-6.02

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

Summary

Daimler Truck beats its peers 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.