CVNA vs. CPRT, CASY, KMX, PAG, MUSA, LAD, AN, ABG, GPI, and RUSHA
Should you be buying Carvana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carvana include Copart (CPRT), Casey's General Stores (CASY), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Murphy USA (MUSA), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), and Rush Enterprises (RUSHA). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
Copart (NASDAQ:CPRT) and Carvana (NYSE:CVNA) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Copart presently has a consensus target price of $51.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.13%. Carvana has a consensus target price of $82.93, suggesting a potential downside of 22.18%. Given Carvana's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Copart is more favorable than Carvana.
Carvana received 140 more outperform votes than Copart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.80% of users gave Copart an outperform vote while only 58.18% of users gave Carvana an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Carvana had 11 more articles in the media than Copart. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Carvana and 9 mentions for Copart. Carvana's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Copart's score of 0.77 indicating that Copart is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Copart has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carvana has a beta of 3.29, suggesting that its stock price is 229% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Copart has a net margin of 33.33% compared to Copart's net margin of 5.68%. Carvana's return on equity of 20.80% beat Copart's return on equity.
85.8% of Copart shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.7% of Carvana shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Copart shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of Carvana shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Copart has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carvana. Copart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carvana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Copart beats Carvana on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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