CPRT vs. CTAS, IRM, KMX, PAG, MUSA, UNF, MGRC, KAR, HCSG, and VVI
Should you be buying Copart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Copart include Cintas (CTAS), Iron Mountain (IRM), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Murphy USA (MUSA), UniFirst (UNF), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), OPENLANE (KAR), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), and Viad (VVI).
Copart (NASDAQ:CPRT) and Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
Cintas received 155 more outperform votes than Copart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.80% of users gave Copart an outperform vote while only 59.87% of users gave Cintas an outperform vote.
Copart currently has a consensus target price of $51.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.10%. Cintas has a consensus target price of $749.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.63%. Given Copart's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Copart is more favorable than Cintas.
Copart has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cintas has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
85.8% of Copart shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.5% of Cintas shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Copart shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.1% of Cintas shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Cintas has higher revenue and earnings than Copart. Copart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cintas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Copart has a net margin of 33.33% compared to Cintas' net margin of 16.38%. Cintas' return on equity of 37.82% beat Copart's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cintas had 21 more articles in the media than Copart. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Cintas and 9 mentions for Copart. Copart's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Cintas' score of 0.51 indicating that Copart is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Cintas beats Copart on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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