DRVN vs. AIRC, LAUR, AFYA, UDMY, SDA, IRS, ALLG, DAO, CHGG, and VSTA
Should you be buying Driven Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Driven Brands include Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Afya (AFYA), Udemy (UDMY), SunCar Technology Group (SDA), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), Allego (ALLG), Youdao (DAO), Chegg (CHGG), and Vasta Platform (VSTA). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Apartment Income REIT (NYSE:AIRC) and Driven Brands (NASDAQ:DRVN) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
In the previous week, Driven Brands had 10 more articles in the media than Apartment Income REIT. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Driven Brands and 1 mentions for Apartment Income REIT. Apartment Income REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Driven Brands' score of 0.00 indicating that Driven Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apartment Income REIT has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Driven Brands has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apartment Income REIT presently has a consensus price target of $36.59, indicating a potential downside of 6.38%. Driven Brands has a consensus price target of $17.25, indicating a potential upside of 32.18%. Given Apartment Income REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Driven Brands is more favorable than Apartment Income REIT.
Driven Brands received 19 more outperform votes than Apartment Income REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.26% of users gave Driven Brands an outperform vote while only 32.39% of users gave Apartment Income REIT an outperform vote.
Apartment Income REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Driven Brands. Driven Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apartment Income REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.1% of Apartment Income REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.1% of Driven Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Apartment Income REIT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Driven Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Apartment Income REIT has a net margin of 79.54% compared to Apartment Income REIT's net margin of -33.30%. Driven Brands' return on equity of 25.86% beat Apartment Income REIT's return on equity.
Summary
Driven Brands beats Apartment Income REIT on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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