America's Car-Mart (CRMT) Competitors

America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ:CRMT) and Monro (NASDAQ:MNRO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of CRMT or MNRO?

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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CRMT or MNRO?

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 50.10% of users gave America's Car-Mart an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
America's Car-Mart	Outperform Votes 256 50.10%	Underperform Votes 255 49.90%
Monro	Outperform Votes 317 58.06%	Underperform Votes 229 41.94%

Is CRMT or MNRO more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
America's Car-Mart	-2.10%	-6.10%	-2.02%
Monro	2.94%	6.25%	2.46%

Does the media refer more to CRMT or MNRO?

In the previous week, America's Car-Mart had 1 more articles in the media than Monro. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for America's Car-Mart and 3 mentions for Monro. Monro's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat America's Car-Mart's score of 0.53 indicating that Monro is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
America's Car-Mart	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Monro	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility & risk, CRMT or MNRO?

America's Car-Mart has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monro has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, CRMT or MNRO?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
America's Car-Mart	$1.41B	0.28	$20.43M	-$4.69	-12.92
Monro	$1.28B	0.59	$37.57M	$1.18	21.27

Do analysts prefer CRMT or MNRO?

America's Car-Mart presently has a consensus price target of $66.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.93%. Monro has a consensus price target of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 39.44%. Given Monro's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Monro is more favorable than America's Car-Mart.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
America's Car-Mart	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.67
Monro	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Summary

Monro beats America's Car-Mart on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.