CARG vs. FTAI, CART, ALLE, RTO, STN, QXO, ICLR, HQY, MEDP, and BILI
Should you be buying CarGurus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CarGurus include FTAI Aviation (FTAI), Maplebear (CART), Allegion (ALLE), Rentokil Initial (RTO), Stantec (STN), QXO (QXO), ICON Public (ICLR), HealthEquity (HQY), Medpace (MEDP), and Bilibili (BILI). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
CarGurus vs. Its Competitors
CarGurus (NASDAQ:CARG) and FTAI Aviation (NYSE:FTAI) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
CarGurus received 177 more outperform votes than FTAI Aviation when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.33% of users gave FTAI Aviation an outperform vote while only 63.41% of users gave CarGurus an outperform vote.
86.9% of CarGurus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.0% of FTAI Aviation shares are held by institutional investors. 17.0% of CarGurus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of FTAI Aviation shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CarGurus has a net margin of 2.34% compared to FTAI Aviation's net margin of 1.59%. FTAI Aviation's return on equity of 206.25% beat CarGurus' return on equity.
CarGurus currently has a consensus target price of $36.95, suggesting a potential upside of 13.59%. FTAI Aviation has a consensus target price of $171.83, suggesting a potential upside of 42.87%. Given FTAI Aviation's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe FTAI Aviation is more favorable than CarGurus.
In the previous week, CarGurus had 5 more articles in the media than FTAI Aviation. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for CarGurus and 7 mentions for FTAI Aviation. FTAI Aviation's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat CarGurus' score of 0.60 indicating that FTAI Aviation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CarGurus has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FTAI Aviation has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FTAI Aviation has higher revenue and earnings than CarGurus. CarGurus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FTAI Aviation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
FTAI Aviation beats CarGurus on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ 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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This page (NASDAQ:CARG) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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