CASY vs. KMX, PAG, MUSA, CVNA, LAD, AN, ABG, RUSHA, GPI, and RUSHB
Should you be buying Casey's General Stores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casey's General Stores include CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Murphy USA (MUSA), Carvana (CVNA), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), and Rush Enterprises (RUSHB). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) and CarMax (NYSE:KMX) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and earnings.
CarMax has higher revenue and earnings than Casey's General Stores. CarMax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Casey's General Stores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Casey's General Stores has a net margin of 3.23% compared to CarMax's net margin of 1.81%. Casey's General Stores' return on equity of 16.70% beat CarMax's return on equity.
Casey's General Stores presently has a consensus price target of $312.63, suggesting a potential downside of 2.31%. CarMax has a consensus price target of $77.42, suggesting a potential upside of 11.06%. Given CarMax's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CarMax is more favorable than Casey's General Stores.
85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of CarMax shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarMax has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CarMax had 20 more articles in the media than Casey's General Stores. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for CarMax and 5 mentions for Casey's General Stores. Casey's General Stores' average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat CarMax's score of 0.25 indicating that Casey's General Stores is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CarMax received 60 more outperform votes than Casey's General Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.87% of users gave CarMax an outperform vote while only 62.78% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote.
Summary
Casey's General Stores beats CarMax on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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