Daimler Truck (DTRUY) and The Competition Financial Comparison

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

Dividends

Daimler Truck pays an annual dividend of $0.79 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Daimler Truck pays out 877.8% 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 27.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Daimler Truck and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Daimler Truck	1	2	5	1	2.67
Daimler Truck Competitors	4105	14522	17958	782	2.41

As a group, “Machinery” companies have a potential upside of 31.06%. Given Daimler Truck’s peers higher probable upside, analysts plainly 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	-1,926.08%	-9.61%	0.95%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

52.2% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are owned by institutional investors. 14.4% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Daimler Truck	$51.50 billion	$2.23 billion	268.92
Daimler Truck Competitors	$4.71 billion	$359.39 million	-6.20

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 14 factors compared.

Daimler Truck Company Profile

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