Financial Review: Ford Motor (NYSE:F) vs. AYRO (NASDAQ:AYRO)

AYRO (NASDAQ:AYRO) and Ford Motor (NYSE:F) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for AYRO and Ford Motor, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AYRO	0	0	0	0	0.00
Ford Motor	2	11	3	1	2.18

Ford Motor has a consensus target price of $13.02, indicating a potential downside of 7.62%. Given Ford Motor’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ford Motor is more favorable than AYRO.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

5.7% of AYRO shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.7% of Ford Motor shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of AYRO shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Ford Motor shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

AYRO has a beta of 3.34, indicating that its stock price is 234% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ford Motor has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares AYRO and Ford Motor”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AYRO	$5,426.00	308.51	-$1.75 million	($37.07)	-0.07
Ford Motor	$187.27 billion	0.30	$5.88 billion	($2.06)	-6.84

Ford Motor has higher revenue and earnings than AYRO. Ford Motor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AYRO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares AYRO and Ford Motor’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AYRO	N/A	-1,213.64%	-88.32%
Ford Motor	-4.37%	10.16%	1.51%

Summary

Ford Motor beats AYRO on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AYRO

Ayro, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles for closed campus mobility, urban and community transport, local on-demand and last mile delivery, and government use in the United States. It provides four-wheeled purpose-built electric vehicles for universities, business and medical campuses, last mile delivery services, and food service providers. The company also offers vehicles as an alternative to internal combustion engine vehicles for light duty uses, including low-speed logistics, maintenance, and cargo services; and designs and develops AYRO Vanish fleet of low speed electric vehicle. The company was formerly known as AEV Technologies, Inc. Ayro, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.

About Ford Motor

Ford Motor Company develops, delivers, and services a range of Ford trucks, commercial cars and vans, sport utility vehicles, and Lincoln luxury vehicles worldwide. It operates through Ford Blue, Ford Model e, and Ford Pro; Ford Next; and Ford Credit segments. The company sells Ford and Lincoln vehicles, service parts, and accessories through distributors and dealers, as well as through dealerships to commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. It also engages in vehicle-related financing and leasing activities to and through automotive dealers. In addition, the company provides retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles; and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail and commercial customers, such as leasing companies, government entities, daily rental companies, and fleet customers. Further, it offers wholesale loans to dealers to finance the purchase of vehicle inventory; and loans to dealers to finance working capital and enhance dealership facilities, purchase dealership real estate, and other dealer vehicle programs. The company was incorporated in 1903 and is based in Dearborn, Michigan.