AN vs. LAD, ABG, GPI, PAG, KMX, SAH, RUSHA, RUSHB, CASY, and CVNA
Should you be buying AutoNation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AutoNation include Lithia Motors (LAD), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), CarMax (KMX), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), Casey's General Stores (CASY), and Carvana (CVNA). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) and AutoNation (NYSE:AN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Lithia Motors received 106 more outperform votes than AutoNation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.23% of users gave Lithia Motors an outperform vote while only 56.24% of users gave AutoNation an outperform vote.
Lithia Motors presently has a consensus price target of $318.55, suggesting a potential upside of 25.67%. AutoNation has a consensus price target of $176.63, suggesting a potential upside of 6.93%. Given AutoNation's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Lithia Motors is more favorable than AutoNation.
In the previous week, AutoNation had 10 more articles in the media than Lithia Motors. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for AutoNation and 12 mentions for Lithia Motors. Lithia Motors' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat AutoNation's score of 0.34 indicating that AutoNation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.6% of AutoNation shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Lithia Motors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of AutoNation shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lithia Motors has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AutoNation has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AutoNation has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lithia Motors. Lithia Motors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AutoNation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AutoNation has a net margin of 3.41% compared to AutoNation's net margin of 2.87%. Lithia Motors' return on equity of 42.44% beat AutoNation's return on equity.
Summary
AutoNation beats Lithia Motors on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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