GPC vs. POOL, LKQ, WEYS, VOXX, STLA, PCAR, GM, F, CMI, and MBLY
Should you be buying Genuine Parts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genuine Parts include Pool (POOL), LKQ (LKQ), Weyco Group (WEYS), VOXX International (VOXX), Stellantis (STLA), PACCAR (PCAR), General Motors (GM), Ford Motor (F), Cummins (CMI), and Mobileye Global (MBLY).
Pool (NASDAQ:POOL) and Genuine Parts (NYSE:GPC) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, community ranking and risk.
99.0% of Pool shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.8% of Genuine Parts shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Pool shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Genuine Parts shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pool has a net margin of 9.17% compared to Pool's net margin of 5.46%. Genuine Parts' return on equity of 35.49% beat Pool's return on equity.
Pool has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genuine Parts has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pool received 120 more outperform votes than Genuine Parts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.95% of users gave Pool an outperform vote while only 48.25% of users gave Genuine Parts an outperform vote.
Pool currently has a consensus target price of $391.80, indicating a potential upside of 14.94%. Genuine Parts has a consensus target price of $171.33, indicating a potential upside of 18.01%. Given Pool's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Genuine Parts is more favorable than Pool.
Pool pays an annual dividend of $4.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Genuine Parts pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Pool pays out 37.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Genuine Parts pays out 44.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Pool has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Genuine Parts has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Genuine Parts has higher revenue and earnings than Pool. Genuine Parts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pool, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Pool and Pool both had 8 articles in the media. Genuine Parts' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Pool's score of 1.20 indicating that Pool is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Pool beats Genuine Parts on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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