CASY vs. KMX, PAG, CVNA, MUSA, LAD, AN, ABG, RUSHA, RUSHB, and GPI
Should you be buying Casey's General Stores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casey's General Stores include CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Carvana (CVNA), Murphy USA (MUSA), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), and Group 1 Automotive (GPI).
CarMax (NYSE:KMX) and Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, CarMax had 19 more articles in the media than Casey's General Stores. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for CarMax and 5 mentions for Casey's General Stores. CarMax's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Casey's General Stores' score of 0.29 indicating that Casey's General Stores is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CarMax currently has a consensus price target of $77.42, suggesting a potential upside of 11.07%. Casey's General Stores has a consensus price target of $312.63, suggesting a potential downside of 2.60%. Given Casey's General Stores' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CarMax is more favorable than Casey's General Stores.
CarMax has higher revenue and earnings than Casey's General Stores. CarMax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Casey's General Stores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CarMax received 60 more outperform votes than Casey's General Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.87% of users gave CarMax an outperform vote while only 62.78% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote.
CarMax has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of CarMax shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Casey's General Stores has a net margin of 3.23% compared to Casey's General Stores' net margin of 1.81%. CarMax's return on equity of 16.70% beat Casey's General Stores' return on equity.
Summary
Casey's General Stores beats CarMax on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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