AN vs. KMX, PAG, LAD, ABG, GPI, AAP, SAH, MNRO, CRMT, and ORLY
Should you be buying AutoNation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AutoNation include CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), 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 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 media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
AutoNation has higher revenue and earnings than CarMax. AutoNation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CarMax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CarMax had 4 more articles in the media than AutoNation. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for CarMax and 9 mentions for AutoNation. CarMax's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat AutoNation's score of 0.99 indicating that AutoNation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.6% of AutoNation shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of CarMax shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of AutoNation shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CarMax currently has a consensus target price of $76.92, indicating a potential upside of 10.85%. AutoNation has a consensus target price of $178.88, indicating a potential upside of 8.67%. Given AutoNation's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CarMax is more favorable than AutoNation.
CarMax received 310 more outperform votes than AutoNation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.84% of users gave CarMax an outperform vote while only 56.31% of users gave AutoNation an outperform vote.
CarMax has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AutoNation has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AutoNation has a net margin of 3.41% compared to AutoNation's net margin of 1.81%. CarMax's return on equity of 42.44% beat AutoNation's return on equity.
Summary
CarMax and AutoNation tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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