Contrasting GreenPower Motor (GP) and Its Peers

GreenPower Motor (NASDAQ:GP) is one of 437 public companies in the “Machinery” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare GreenPower Motor to related businesses based on the strength of its dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and profitability.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares GreenPower Motor and its competitors revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
GreenPower Motor	$16.39 million	-$5.48 million	-0.94
GreenPower Motor Competitors	$4.47 billion	$346.97 million	-17.15

GreenPower Motor’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than GreenPower Motor. GreenPower Motor is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for GreenPower Motor and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GreenPower Motor	1	1	0	0	1.50
GreenPower Motor Competitors	4054	14451	17864	769	2.41

As a group, “Machinery” companies have a potential upside of 26.29%. Given GreenPower Motor’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe GreenPower Motor has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Risk & Volatility

GreenPower Motor has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GreenPower Motor’s competitors have a beta of 4.49, indicating that their average stock price is 349% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

1.7% of GreenPower Motor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by institutional investors. 28.1% of GreenPower Motor shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares GreenPower Motor and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GreenPower Motor	-33.41%	N/A	-12.75%
GreenPower Motor Competitors	-1,937.19%	-13.09%	0.75%

Summary

GreenPower Motor competitors beat GreenPower Motor on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About GreenPower Motor

GreenPower Motor Company Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes electric vehicles for commercial markets in the United States and Canada. The company offers commercial vehicles for delivery, public transit, schools, vanpools, micro-transit, shuttles, and other; and passenger, student, low floor transit, and cargo transportation. It leases its vehicles to customers. GreenPower Motor Company Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.