HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD. vs Ferrari N.V., two Auto Manufacturers stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Ferrari runs debt-free building fewer than 15,000 cars a year at a 40.86% return on equity; Honda runs debt-free (ex-finance) building millions at 7.15%, scarcity economics against scale ones. Ferrari nets 22.4% of revenue to Honda's 4.16%, luxury margins against mass-market ones, and trades at 37.7 times earnings against Honda's 7.5, a fivefold multiple gap. Ferrari yields 3.09% in free cash; Honda's is slightly negative this year. Ferrari earns luxury-goods returns at a luxury multiple while Honda earns manufacturing economics at a manufacturing discount, and the two sit at opposite ends of what building vehicles can be worth, united only by the sector code.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | HMC | RACE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $26.84 | $368.00 |
| Market cap | $41.8B | $65.5B |
| Sector | Auto Manufacturers | Auto Manufacturers |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +23.6% |
| P/E | 7.5 | 37.7 |
| P/B | 0.50 | 15.40 |
| P/S | 0.29 | 8.44 |
| EV/EBITDA | 0.6 | 27.9 |
| Revenue growth | +13.4% | +13.8% |
| Operating margin | 5.6% | 29.5% |
| Net margin | 4.2% | 22.4% |
| Return on equity | 7.2% | 40.9% |
| Return on assets | 2.9% | 16.6% |
| Return on invested capital | 6.6% | 41.8% |
| FCF yield | -3.5% | 3.1% |
| Dividend yield | 5.9% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.36 | — |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.67 | 8.07 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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