AZO vs. ORLY, ROST, JD, CPNG, KR, YUM, FAST, MELI, DG, and TSCO
Should you be buying AutoZone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AutoZone include O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Ross Stores (ROST), JD.com (JD), Coupang (CPNG), Kroger (KR), Yum! Brands (YUM), Fastenal (FAST), MercadoLibre (MELI), Dollar General (DG), and Tractor Supply (TSCO). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) and AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of AutoZone shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of AutoZone shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, O'Reilly Automotive had 40 more articles in the media than AutoZone. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive and 9 mentions for AutoZone. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat AutoZone's score of 0.30 indicating that AutoZone is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AutoZone has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
O'Reilly Automotive currently has a consensus price target of $1,110.07, indicating a potential upside of 6.34%. AutoZone has a consensus price target of $3,086.61, indicating a potential upside of 4.77%. Given AutoZone's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe O'Reilly Automotive is more favorable than AutoZone.
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.
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 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.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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