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Should you be buying Advance Auto Parts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advance Auto Parts include Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Shake Shack (SHAK), Capri (CPRI), Signet Jewelers (SIG), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Wendy's (WEN), Urban Outfitters (URBN), GameStop (GME), and GMS (GMS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) and Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE:ABG) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Advance Auto Parts and Advance Auto Parts both had 7 articles in the media. Advance Auto Parts' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Asbury Automotive Group's score of 0.46 indicating that Advance Auto Parts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Asbury Automotive Group has a net margin of 3.68% compared to Advance Auto Parts' net margin of 0.39%. Asbury Automotive Group's return on equity of 20.12% beat Advance Auto Parts' return on equity.
Advance Auto Parts currently has a consensus price target of $64.56, suggesting a potential downside of 14.35%. Asbury Automotive Group has a consensus price target of $231.25, suggesting a potential downside of 4.03%. Given Asbury Automotive Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Asbury Automotive Group is more favorable than Advance Auto Parts.
88.8% of Advance Auto Parts shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Advance Auto Parts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Asbury Automotive Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Asbury Automotive Group has higher revenue and earnings than Advance Auto Parts. Asbury Automotive Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advance Auto Parts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Advance Auto Parts has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Asbury Automotive Group has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Advance Auto Parts received 584 more outperform votes than Asbury Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.26% of users gave Advance Auto Parts an outperform vote while only 53.64% of users gave Asbury Automotive Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Asbury Automotive Group beats Advance Auto Parts on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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