PRTS vs. PETS, ONEW, LKQ, EBAY, AMZN, NFLX, BKNG, EXPE, TRIP, and GRPN
Should you be buying CarParts.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CarParts.com include PetMed Express (PETS), OneWater Marine (ONEW), LKQ (LKQ), eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX), Booking (BKNG), Expedia Group (EXPE), Tripadvisor (TRIP), and Groupon (GRPN).
PetMed Express (NASDAQ:PETS) and CarParts.com (NASDAQ:PRTS) 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 community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
CarParts.com has a net margin of -2.36% compared to CarParts.com's net margin of -2.92%. CarParts.com's return on equity of -1.25% beat PetMed Express' return on equity.
PetMed Express has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarParts.com has a beta of 2.05, meaning that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CarParts.com received 56 more outperform votes than PetMed Express when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.51% of users gave CarParts.com an outperform vote while only 45.13% of users gave PetMed Express an outperform vote.
PetMed Express has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CarParts.com. PetMed Express is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CarParts.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PetMed Express had 5 more articles in the media than CarParts.com. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for PetMed Express and 3 mentions for CarParts.com. PetMed Express' average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat CarParts.com's score of 0.68 indicating that CarParts.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
73.3% of PetMed Express shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of CarParts.com shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of PetMed Express shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of CarParts.com shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
PetMed Express presently has a consensus target price of $6.50, suggesting a potential upside of 55.50%. CarParts.com has a consensus target price of $3.33, suggesting a potential upside of 187.36%. Given PetMed Express' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CarParts.com is more favorable than PetMed Express.
Summary
CarParts.com beats PetMed Express on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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