GPI vs. KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, ABG, AAP, SAH, MNRO, CRMT, and ORLY
Should you be buying Group 1 Automotive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Group 1 Automotive include CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Monro (MNRO), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), and O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
CarMax (NYSE:KMX) and Group 1 Automotive (NYSE:GPI) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
99.9% of Group 1 Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of CarMax shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Group 1 Automotive shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, CarMax had 7 more articles in the media than Group 1 Automotive. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for CarMax and 9 mentions for Group 1 Automotive. CarMax's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Group 1 Automotive's score of 0.69 indicating that Group 1 Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CarMax has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Group 1 Automotive has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CarMax presently has a consensus price target of $76.92, suggesting a potential upside of 11.20%. Group 1 Automotive has a consensus price target of $330.83, suggesting a potential upside of 8.94%. Given Group 1 Automotive's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe CarMax is more favorable than Group 1 Automotive.
Group 1 Automotive has a net margin of 3.23% compared to Group 1 Automotive's net margin of 1.81%. CarMax's return on equity of 22.45% beat Group 1 Automotive's return on equity.
Group 1 Automotive has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CarMax. Group 1 Automotive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CarMax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CarMax received 229 more outperform votes than Group 1 Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.84% of users gave CarMax an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Group 1 Automotive an outperform vote.
Summary
CarMax and Group 1 Automotive tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Group 1 Automotive News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for GPI and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding GPI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Group 1 Automotive Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
