ORLY vs. AZO, KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, ABG, GPI, AAP, SAH, and HZO
Should you be buying O'Reilly Automotive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of O'Reilly Automotive include AutoZone (AZO), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Sonic Automotive (SAH), and MarineMax (HZO). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) and AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
O'Reilly Automotive currently has a consensus target price of $1,123.64, indicating a potential upside of 14.81%. AutoZone has a consensus target price of $3,104.13, indicating a potential upside of 10.83%. Given O'Reilly Automotive's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe O'Reilly Automotive is more favorable than AutoZone.
AutoZone has higher revenue and earnings than O'Reilly Automotive. AutoZone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than O'Reilly Automotive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AutoZone has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
O'Reilly Automotive has a net margin of 14.78% compared to AutoZone's net margin of 14.60%. AutoZone's return on equity of -54.69% beat O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity.
In the previous week, AutoZone had 8 more articles in the media than O'Reilly Automotive. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for AutoZone and 11 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat AutoZone's score of 0.78 indicating that O'Reilly Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AutoZone received 13 more outperform votes than O'Reilly Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.36% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote while only 66.52% of users gave O'Reilly Automotive an outperform vote.
85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of AutoZone shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of AutoZone 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.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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