CASY vs. AN, KR, IMKTA, NGVC, VLGEA, WMK, CVNA, KMX, PAG, and MUSA
Should you be buying Casey's General Stores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casey's General Stores include AutoNation (AN), Kroger (KR), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Weis Markets (WMK), Carvana (CVNA), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), and Murphy USA (MUSA).
Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) and AutoNation (NYSE:AN) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.
AutoNation has a net margin of 3.41% compared to Casey's General Stores' net margin of 3.23%. AutoNation's return on equity of 42.44% beat Casey's General Stores' return on equity.
Casey's General Stores presently has a consensus price target of $324.75, suggesting a potential downside of 1.18%. AutoNation has a consensus price target of $178.88, suggesting a potential upside of 7.87%. Given AutoNation's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe AutoNation is more favorable than Casey's General Stores.
AutoNation has higher revenue and earnings than Casey's General Stores. AutoNation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Casey's General Stores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Casey's General Stores had 4 more articles in the media than AutoNation. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Casey's General Stores and 9 mentions for AutoNation. AutoNation's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Casey's General Stores' score of 0.88 indicating that AutoNation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.6% of AutoNation shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of AutoNation shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Casey's General Stores received 250 more outperform votes than AutoNation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.75% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote while only 56.31% of users gave AutoNation an outperform vote.
Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AutoNation has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AutoNation beats Casey's General Stores on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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