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America's Car-Mart (CRMT) Competitors

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$59.44 -1.74 (-2.84%)
Closing price 07/11/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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CRMT vs. MNRO, ORLY, AZO, PAG, KMX, LAD, AN, GPI, ABG, and AAP

Should you be buying America's Car-Mart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of America's Car-Mart include Monro Muffler Brake (MNRO), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), AutoZone (AZO), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), CarMax (KMX), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), and Advance Auto Parts (AAP). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.

America's Car-Mart vs. Its Competitors

Monro Muffler Brake (NASDAQ:MNRO) and America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ:CRMT) are both small-cap automotive retail companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.

Monro Muffler Brake has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, America's Car-Mart has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.

America's Car-Mart has higher revenue and earnings than Monro Muffler Brake. Monro Muffler Brake is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than America's Car-Mart, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Monro Muffler Brake$1.20B0.40-$5.18M-$0.20-80.60
America's Car-Mart$1.39B0.35$17.93M$2.0928.44

America's Car-Mart has a net margin of 1.29% compared to Monro Muffler Brake's net margin of -0.43%. Monro Muffler Brake's return on equity of 2.43% beat America's Car-Mart's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Monro Muffler Brake-0.43% 2.43% 0.93%
America's Car-Mart 1.29%2.01%0.68%

89.1% of America's Car-Mart shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Monro Muffler Brake shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.6% of America's Car-Mart shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Monro Muffler Brake presently has a consensus price target of $17.67, suggesting a potential upside of 9.59%. America's Car-Mart has a consensus price target of $50.00, suggesting a potential downside of 15.88%. Given Monro Muffler Brake's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Monro Muffler Brake is more favorable than America's Car-Mart.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Monro Muffler Brake
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
America's Car-Mart
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
4.00

In the previous week, America's Car-Mart had 1 more articles in the media than Monro Muffler Brake. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for America's Car-Mart and 3 mentions for Monro Muffler Brake. Monro Muffler Brake's average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat America's Car-Mart's score of 0.76 indicating that Monro Muffler Brake is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Monro Muffler Brake
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
America's Car-Mart
0 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

America's Car-Mart beats Monro Muffler Brake on 11 of the 17 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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CRMT vs. The Competition

MetricAmerica's Car-MartRET/WHLSL AUTO/TRUCK IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$505.46M$4.86B$26.33B$9.11B
Dividend YieldN/A1.34%175.53%4.01%
P/E Ratio28.4414.8429.0420.25
Price / Sales0.350.528.3299.65
Price / Cash21.3313.6249.4658.16
Price / Book0.861.825.715.49
Net Income$17.93M$375.51M$869.96M$250.27M
7 Day Performance-3.68%0.21%0.70%4.80%
1 Month Performance18.88%9.88%5.78%7.68%
1 Year Performance-11.53%18.44%21.12%16.36%

America's Car-Mart Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CRMT
America's Car-Mart
2.6099 of 5 stars
$59.44
-2.8%
$50.00
-15.9%
-8.9%$505.46M$1.39B28.442,280Analyst Upgrade
MNRO
Monro Muffler Brake
1.9521 of 5 stars
$14.91
+1.6%
$17.67
+18.5%
-29.2%$439.65M$1.20B-74.557,360Positive News
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ORLY
O'Reilly Automotive
3.8003 of 5 stars
$90.13
+1.1%
$94.30
+4.6%
+33.0%$76.22B$16.71B33.1393,047Positive News
AZO
AutoZone
4.588 of 5 stars
$3,713.40
+2.9%
$4,072.24
+9.7%
+28.3%$60.58B$18.49B25.13126,000Positive News
PAG
Penske Automotive Group
3.4862 of 5 stars
$171.99
-0.8%
$172.00
+0.0%
+20.0%$11.47B$30.46B12.1128,900
KMX
CarMax
4.6909 of 5 stars
$67.26
+1.0%
$85.10
+26.5%
-19.2%$9.99B$26.35B18.5830,048
LAD
Lithia Motors
4.7589 of 5 stars
$337.99
+0.7%
$379.40
+12.3%
+35.4%$8.74B$36.24B10.6530,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
AN
AutoNation
3.6092 of 5 stars
$198.53
-0.2%
$205.75
+3.6%
+24.9%$7.50B$26.77B11.7525,100Analyst Forecast
GPI
Group 1 Automotive
3.4126 of 5 stars
$436.60
-0.5%
$473.00
+8.3%
+62.5%$5.67B$19.93B12.2620,413News Coverage
Positive News
ABG
Asbury Automotive Group
2.0492 of 5 stars
$238.17
-2.4%
$263.50
+10.6%
+8.0%$4.80B$17.19B11.3415,000News Coverage
Positive News
AAP
Advance Auto Parts
2.7475 of 5 stars
$46.47
-0.1%
$46.25
-0.5%
+1.5%$2.79B$9.09B-7.9262,800Options Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:CRMT) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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