MCW vs. MNRO, LAUR, PENN, CRI, CENTA, CUK, ATGE, SPB, PTVE, and TGNA
Should you be buying Mister Car Wash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mister Car Wash include Monro (MNRO), Laureate Education (LAUR), PENN Entertainment (PENN), Carter's (CRI), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Carnival Co. & (CUK), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Spectrum Brands (SPB), Pactiv Evergreen (PTVE), and TEGNA (TGNA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Mister Car Wash (NYSE:MCW) and Monro (NASDAQ:MNRO) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Mister Car Wash has a net margin of 8.04% compared to Monro's net margin of 2.68%. Mister Car Wash's return on equity of 9.38% beat Monro's return on equity.
Mister Car Wash currently has a consensus price target of $9.56, suggesting a potential upside of 21.20%. Monro has a consensus price target of $35.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.46%. Given Monro's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Monro is more favorable than Mister Car Wash.
Mister Car Wash has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Monro. Monro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mister Car Wash, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Monro received 294 more outperform votes than Mister Car Wash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.06% of users gave Monro an outperform vote while only 41.07% of users gave Mister Car Wash an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Monro had 96 more articles in the media than Mister Car Wash. MarketBeat recorded 97 mentions for Monro and 1 mentions for Mister Car Wash. Mister Car Wash's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Monro's score of -0.16 indicating that Mister Car Wash is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mister Car Wash has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monro has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mister Car Wash beats Monro on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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