ORLY vs. AZO, MELI, TGT, CMG, ROST, JD, CVS, CPNG, KR, and YUM
Should you be buying O'Reilly Automotive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of O'Reilly Automotive include AutoZone (AZO), MercadoLibre (MELI), Target (TGT), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Ross Stores (ROST), JD.com (JD), CVS Health (CVS), Coupang (CPNG), Kroger (KR), and Yum! Brands (YUM). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) and O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
92.7% of AutoZone shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of AutoZone shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned 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.
AutoZone has higher revenue and earnings than O'Reilly Automotive. AutoZone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than O'Reilly Automotive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AutoZone currently has a consensus price target of $3,086.61, suggesting a potential upside of 4.77%. O'Reilly Automotive has a consensus price target of $1,110.07, suggesting a potential upside of 7.04%. Given AutoZone's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe O'Reilly Automotive is more favorable than AutoZone.
O'Reilly Automotive has a net margin of 14.78% compared to O'Reilly Automotive's net margin of 14.70%. O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity of -56.06% beat AutoZone's return on equity.
AutoZone received 3 more outperform votes than O'Reilly Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.04% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote while only 66.55% of users gave O'Reilly Automotive an outperform vote.
In the previous week, O'Reilly Automotive had 42 more articles in the media than AutoZone. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive and 10 mentions for AutoZone. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat AutoZone's score of 0.30 indicating that AutoZone is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AutoZone has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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