CTAS vs. CPRT, IRM, PVH, KTB, UNF, MGRC, KAR, OXM, HCSG, and VVI
Should you be buying Cintas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cintas include Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), PVH (PVH), Kontoor Brands (KTB), UniFirst (UNF), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), OPENLANE (KAR), Oxford Industries (OXM), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), and Viad (VVI).
Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) and Copart (NASDAQ:CPRT) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment and dividends.
Cintas presently has a consensus target price of $749.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.63%. Copart has a consensus target price of $51.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.10%. Given Copart's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Copart is more favorable than Cintas.
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.
In the previous week, Cintas had 20 more articles in the media than Copart. MarketBeat recorded 29 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 news media.
63.5% of Cintas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Copart shares are held by institutional investors. 15.1% of Cintas shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Copart 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.
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.
Cintas has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copart has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
Cintas beats Copart on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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