Critical Comparison: Fisker (FSRN) & Its Rivals

Fisker (NYSE:FSRN) is one of 66 publicly-traded companies in the “Motor vehicles & car bodies” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Fisker to related businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fisker	-278.72%	-110.93%	-23.14%
Fisker Competitors	-150.59%	-24.60%	-9.13%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Fisker and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Fisker	$272.89 million	-$761.99 million	-0.02
Fisker Competitors	$46.75 billion	$2.55 billion	-7.47

Fisker’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Fisker. Fisker 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 breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Fisker and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Fisker	0	0	0	0	N/A
Fisker Competitors	961	2493	3376	151	2.39

As a group, “Motor vehicles & car bodies” companies have a potential upside of 9.27%. Given Fisker’s competitors higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Fisker has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Risk & Volatility

Fisker has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fisker’s competitors have a beta of 3.78, suggesting that their average share price is 278% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

33.6% of Fisker shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.9% of shares of all “Motor vehicles & car bodies” companies are held by institutional investors. 26.3% of Fisker shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of shares of all “Motor vehicles & car bodies” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Fisker competitors beat Fisker on 8 of the 10 factors compared.

Fisker Company Profile

Fisker Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, leases, or sells electric vehicles. It operates through three segments: The White Space, The Value Segment, and The Conservative Premium segments. The company is also involved in asset-light automotive business. In addition, it offers fisker flexible platform agnostic design, a process that develops and designs electric vehicles in specific segment size. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California.