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$47.79 +2.09 (+4.57%)
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CRMT vs. MNRO, ORLY, AZO, KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, GPI, ABG, and SAH

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

America's Car-Mart vs.

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

Monro has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, America's Car-Mart has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Monro had 3 more articles in the media than America's Car-Mart. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Monro and 5 mentions for America's Car-Mart. America's Car-Mart's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Monro's score of 0.87 indicating that America's Car-Mart is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

Monro presently has a consensus target price of $25.33, indicating a potential upside of 48.57%. America's Car-Mart has a consensus target price of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.35%. Given Monro's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Monro is more favorable than America's Car-Mart.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Monro
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
America's Car-Mart
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

Monro received 59 more outperform votes than America's Car-Mart when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.71% of users gave Monro an outperform vote while only 49.43% of users gave America's Car-Mart an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
MonroOutperform Votes
318
57.71%
Underperform Votes
233
42.29%
America's Car-MartOutperform Votes
259
49.43%
Underperform Votes
265
50.57%

89.1% of America's Car-Mart shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Monro shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.6% of America's Car-Mart shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Monro has higher earnings, but lower revenue than America's Car-Mart. Monro 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$1.21B0.42$37.57M$0.6426.64
America's Car-Mart$1.39B0.28-$31.39M$0.8952.83

Monro has a net margin of 1.64% compared to America's Car-Mart's net margin of -0.29%. Monro's return on equity of 3.76% beat America's Car-Mart's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Monro1.64% 3.76% 1.45%
America's Car-Mart -0.29%-2.26%-0.73%

Summary

Monro beats America's Car-Mart on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CRMT vs. The Competition

MetricAmerica's Car-MartAutomotive dealers & gasoline service stations IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$385.98M$7.48B$24.23B$8.06B
Dividend YieldN/A1.52%171.37%4.09%
P/E Ratio-56.9719.1623.5319.16
Price / Sales0.283.203.6187.70
Price / CashN/A19.0319.4934.64
Price / Book0.643.725.474.33
Net Income-$31.39M$310.64M$784.47M$247.05M
7 Day Performance4.50%0.80%1.61%1.30%
1 Month Performance-4.87%-10.42%-8.62%-8.91%
1 Year Performance-23.74%-4.80%-0.90%4.95%

America's Car-Mart Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CRMT
America's Car-Mart
1.8988 of 5 stars
$47.79
+4.6%
$50.00
+4.6%
-24.1%$394.84M$1.39B-58.282,100Positive News
MNRO
Monro
2.8477 of 5 stars
$17.10
+2.2%
$25.33
+48.1%
-42.8%$512.13M$1.21B26.728,750Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
ORLY
O'Reilly Automotive
3.7366 of 5 stars
$1,346.58
+2.1%
$1,390.81
+3.3%
+20.2%$77.12B$16.71B33.1290,302Stock Split
Positive News
AZO
AutoZone
3.7092 of 5 stars
$3,685.10
+1.9%
$3,651.91
-0.9%
+16.2%$61.84B$18.67B24.62126,000Analyst Revision
Positive News
KMX
CarMax
4.2345 of 5 stars
$73.98
-3.6%
$90.91
+22.9%
-11.9%$11.38B$25.98B25.0829,836Positive News
PAG
Penske Automotive Group
4.1371 of 5 stars
$167.75
-0.9%
$172.50
+2.8%
-2.9%$11.20B$30.46B12.2044,000Positive News
LAD
Lithia Motors
4.1992 of 5 stars
$293.90
-3.6%
$371.36
+26.4%
+5.1%$7.73B$36.19B9.9021,900Positive News
AN
AutoNation
3.4599 of 5 stars
$164.79
-3.7%
$204.71
+24.2%
+2.7%$6.44B$26.77B9.7325,100Positive News
GPI
Group 1 Automotive
3.8817 of 5 stars
$432.65
-2.0%
$460.33
+6.4%
+47.6%$5.73B$19.93B11.7716,011Positive News
ABG
Asbury Automotive Group
3.2442 of 5 stars
$248.13
-2.6%
$264.00
+6.4%
+11.8%$4.87B$17.19B11.5415,000Positive News
SAH
Sonic Automotive
4.5745 of 5 stars
$65.92
-1.0%
$79.20
+20.1%
+14.6%$2.22B$14.22B10.6710,500Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
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This page (NASDAQ:CRMT) was last updated on 3/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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