AUTO vs. RMV, PSON, WPP, AAF, ITV, INF, FOUR, VOD, MONY, and BCG
Should you be buying Auto Trader Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Auto Trader Group include Rightmove (RMV), Pearson (PSON), WPP (WPP), Airtel Africa (AAF), ITV (ITV), Informa (INF), 4imprint Group (FOUR), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), Moneysupermarket.com Group (MONY), and Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Auto Trader Group (LON:AUTO) and Rightmove (LON:RMV) are both mid-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Auto Trader Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Rightmove pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Auto Trader Group pays out 3,600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Rightmove pays out 3,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Auto Trader Group has higher revenue and earnings than Rightmove. Rightmove is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Auto Trader Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rightmove has a net margin of 54.66% compared to Auto Trader Group's net margin of 44.36%. Rightmove's return on equity of 289.63% beat Auto Trader Group's return on equity.
Auto Trader Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 666.67, suggesting a potential downside of 4.79%. Rightmove has a consensus target price of GBX 656.67, suggesting a potential upside of 19.48%. Given Rightmove's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Rightmove is more favorable than Auto Trader Group.
Auto Trader Group has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rightmove has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
71.6% of Auto Trader Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.8% of Rightmove shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Auto Trader Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Rightmove shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Auto Trader Group had 3 more articles in the media than Rightmove. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Auto Trader Group and 2 mentions for Rightmove. Rightmove's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Auto Trader Group's score of -0.06 indicating that Rightmove is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rightmove received 17 more outperform votes than Auto Trader Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.61% of users gave Auto Trader Group an outperform vote while only 59.62% of users gave Rightmove an outperform vote.
Summary
Rightmove beats Auto Trader Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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