CRMT vs. SAH, TA, KAR, CVNA, NEGG, PLCE, GCO, HVT, HEPS, and HVT.A
Should you be buying America's Car-Mart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of America's Car-Mart include Sonic Automotive (SAH), TravelCenters of America (TA), KAR Auction Services (KAR), Carvana (CVNA), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), Children's Place (PLCE), Genesco (GCO), Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT), D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. (HEPS), and Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT.A). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
America's Car-Mart vs.
Sonic Automotive (NYSE:SAH) and America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ:CRMT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Sonic Automotive presently has a consensus target price of $53.67, indicating a potential downside of 1.24%. America's Car-Mart has a consensus target price of $97.50, indicating a potential upside of 23.09%. Given America's Car-Mart's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe America's Car-Mart is more favorable than Sonic Automotive.
America's Car-Mart received 17 more outperform votes than Sonic Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.14% of users gave Sonic Automotive an outperform vote while only 51.11% of users gave America's Car-Mart an outperform vote.
Sonic Automotive has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, America's Car-Mart has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, America's Car-Mart had 1 more articles in the media than Sonic Automotive. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for America's Car-Mart and 1 mentions for Sonic Automotive. Sonic Automotive's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat America's Car-Mart's score of 0.61 indicating that Sonic Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
America's Car-Mart has a net margin of 3.24% compared to Sonic Automotive's net margin of 0.62%. Sonic Automotive's return on equity of 35.44% beat America's Car-Mart's return on equity.
America's Car-Mart has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Sonic Automotive. America's Car-Mart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sonic Automotive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
52.5% of Sonic Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.2% of America's Car-Mart shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.1% of Sonic Automotive shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of America's Car-Mart shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Sonic Automotive beats America's Car-Mart on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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