LAD vs. AN, ABG, PAG, GPI, KMX, RUSHA, RUSHB, CASY, CVNA, and DDS
Should you be buying Lithia Motors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithia Motors include AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), CarMax (KMX), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Carvana (CVNA), and Dillard's (DDS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
AutoNation (NYSE:AN) and Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
AutoNation has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lithia Motors. AutoNation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lithia Motors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AutoNation has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lithia Motors has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.6% of AutoNation shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of AutoNation shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Lithia Motors shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AutoNation has a net margin of 3.79% compared to AutoNation's net margin of 2.87%. Lithia Motors' return on equity of 48.76% beat AutoNation's return on equity.
AutoNation presently has a consensus price target of $173.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.84%. Lithia Motors has a consensus price target of $320.82, indicating a potential upside of 22.11%. Given AutoNation's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lithia Motors is more favorable than AutoNation.
In the previous week, Lithia Motors had 5 more articles in the media than AutoNation. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Lithia Motors and 27 mentions for AutoNation. Lithia Motors' average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat AutoNation's score of 0.11 indicating that AutoNation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lithia Motors received 106 more outperform votes than AutoNation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.32% of users gave Lithia Motors an outperform vote while only 56.41% of users gave AutoNation an outperform vote.
Summary
Lithia Motors beats AutoNation on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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