CARS vs. GOOS, JACK, SBH, HIBB, SCVL, KRUS, HLF, PTLO, WINA, and ETD
Should you be buying Cars.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cars.com include Canada Goose (GOOS), Jack in the Box (JACK), Sally Beauty (SBH), Hibbett (HIBB), Shoe Carnival (SCVL), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Herbalife (HLF), Portillo's (PTLO), Winmark (WINA), and Ethan Allen Interiors (ETD). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Cars.com (NYSE:CARS) and Canada Goose (NYSE:GOOS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, valuation and profitability.
89.2% of Cars.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.6% of Canada Goose shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Cars.com shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Canada Goose shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cars.com has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canada Goose has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cars.com had 77 more articles in the media than Canada Goose. MarketBeat recorded 83 mentions for Cars.com and 6 mentions for Canada Goose. Canada Goose's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Cars.com's score of -0.01 indicating that Canada Goose is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Canada Goose received 299 more outperform votes than Cars.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.90% of users gave Canada Goose an outperform vote while only 64.71% of users gave Cars.com an outperform vote.
Cars.com currently has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 41.01%. Canada Goose has a consensus target price of $13.83, suggesting a potential upside of 22.70%. Given Cars.com's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cars.com is more favorable than Canada Goose.
Cars.com has a net margin of 17.19% compared to Canada Goose's net margin of 3.86%. Cars.com's return on equity of 25.78% beat Canada Goose's return on equity.
Cars.com has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Canada Goose. Cars.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canada Goose, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cars.com beats Canada Goose on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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