CRMT vs. MNRO, TA, KAR, SAH, RUSHA, ORLY, AZO, KMX, PAG, and LAD
Should you be buying America's Car-Mart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of America's Car-Mart include Monro (MNRO), TravelCenters of America (TA), OPENLANE (KAR), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), AutoZone (AZO), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), and Lithia Motors (LAD).
America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ:CRMT) and Monro (NASDAQ:MNRO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Monro has a net margin of 2.94% compared to America's Car-Mart's net margin of -2.10%. Monro's return on equity of 6.25% beat America's Car-Mart's return on equity.
89.1% of America's Car-Mart shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.1% of America's Car-Mart shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Monro shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Monro had 69 more articles in the media than America's Car-Mart. MarketBeat recorded 73 mentions for Monro and 4 mentions for America's Car-Mart. America's Car-Mart's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Monro's score of -0.26 indicating that America's Car-Mart is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Monro has lower revenue, but higher earnings than America's Car-Mart. America's Car-Mart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Monro received 61 more outperform votes than America's Car-Mart when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.06% of users gave Monro an outperform vote while only 50.20% of users gave America's Car-Mart an outperform vote.
America's Car-Mart presently has a consensus target price of $66.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.14%. Monro has a consensus target price of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 47.43%. Given Monro's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Monro is more favorable than America's Car-Mart.
America's Car-Mart has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monro has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Monro beats America's Car-Mart on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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