PACCAR Inc vs Tesla, Inc., two Auto Manufacturers stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
What is priced in: Tesla at 347.7 times earnings is priced for autonomy, energy, and robotics far beyond its cars, PACCAR at 25.7 as a heavy-truck maker priced for steady freight demand, a fourteenfold multiple gap. PACCAR earns the higher return on equity, 12.5% against Tesla's 5.19%, and nets 8.91% of revenue against Tesla's 4.5%, the truck maker's current economics dwarfing the EV giant's. Both run light debt. PACCAR yields 5.89% in free cash and pays a 2.25% dividend; Tesla yields a bare 0.52% and none. The pair prices a profitable industrial truck maker against an EV company valued on moonshots; PACCAR earns real returns now, Tesla's price rests entirely on futures its current income statement cannot support.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | PCAR | TSLA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $120.75 | $379.00 |
| Market cap | $63.7B | $1.34T |
| Sector | Auto Manufacturers | Auto Manufacturers |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +23.3% | — |
| P/E | 25.7 | 347.7 |
| P/B | 3.22 | 15.82 |
| P/S | 2.29 | 13.70 |
| EV/EBITDA | 77.4 | 131.8 |
| Revenue growth | -14.0% | +3.1% |
| Gross margin | — | 21.1% |
| Operating margin | — | 4.2% |
| Net margin | 8.9% | 4.5% |
| Return on equity | 12.5% | 5.2% |
| Return on assets | 5.7% | 3.1% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 3.4% |
| FCF yield | 5.9% | 0.5% |
| Dividend yield | 2.3% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.11 |
| Current ratio | — | 2.04 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 7.25 | 7.38 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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