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Ituran Location and Control (ITRN) Competitors

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$39.28 -0.11 (-0.28%)
Closing price 07/3/2025 03:35 PM Eastern
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$39.30 +0.02 (+0.04%)
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ITRN vs. CENT, GLP, WKC, DSGR, GIC, VSTS, CAPL, RYI, STKL, and MGPI

Should you be buying Ituran Location and Control stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ituran Location and Control include Central Garden & Pet (CENT), Global Partners (GLP), World Kinect (WKC), Distribution Solutions Group (DSGR), Global Industrial (GIC), Vestis (VSTS), CrossAmerica Partners (CAPL), Ryerson (RYI), SunOpta (STKL), and MGP Ingredients (MGPI). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.

Ituran Location and Control vs. Its Competitors

Ituran Location and Control (NASDAQ:ITRN) and Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENT) are both wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Ituran Location and Control has a net margin of 16.35% compared to Central Garden & Pet's net margin of 3.90%. Ituran Location and Control's return on equity of 29.19% beat Central Garden & Pet's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ituran Location and Control16.35% 29.19% 16.95%
Central Garden & Pet 3.90%10.14%4.40%

Ituran Location and Control presently has a consensus price target of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.29%. Central Garden & Pet has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.63%. Given Ituran Location and Control's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ituran Location and Control is more favorable than Central Garden & Pet.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ituran Location and Control
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Central Garden & Pet
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

Central Garden & Pet has higher revenue and earnings than Ituran Location and Control. Ituran Location and Control is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Central Garden & Pet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ituran Location and Control$336.26M2.32$53.65M$2.7814.13
Central Garden & Pet$3.20B0.75$107.98M$1.8719.51

In the previous week, Ituran Location and Control had 3 more articles in the media than Central Garden & Pet. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ituran Location and Control and 1 mentions for Central Garden & Pet. Ituran Location and Control's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Central Garden & Pet's score of 0.00 indicating that Ituran Location and Control is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ituran Location and Control
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Central Garden & Pet
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

94.8% of Ituran Location and Control shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.1% of Central Garden & Pet shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Ituran Location and Control shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Central Garden & Pet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Ituran Location and Control has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Central Garden & Pet has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Ituran Location and Control beats Central Garden & Pet on 11 of the 15 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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ITRN vs. The Competition

MetricIturan Location and ControlPROTECTION IndustryIndustrials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$781.28M$2.03B$7.54B$9.02B
Dividend Yield5.06%1.86%4.53%3.99%
P/E Ratio14.1339.8425.0220.25
Price / Sales2.324.78118.45119.26
Price / Cash10.6664.1526.6528.59
Price / Book4.099.624.365.65
Net Income$53.65M$110.42M$791.63M$249.15M
7 Day Performance1.42%2.95%2.09%2.91%
1 Month Performance4.36%8.16%5.18%4.11%
1 Year Performance61.45%186.55%32.04%20.98%

Ituran Location and Control Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ITRN
Ituran Location and Control
4.0436 of 5 stars
$39.28
-0.3%
$50.00
+27.3%
+61.4%$781.28M$336.26M14.132,892Analyst Downgrade
CENT
Central Garden & Pet
1.8979 of 5 stars
$35.18
-0.5%
$40.00
+13.7%
-2.6%$2.32B$3.20B18.816,450News Coverage
GLP
Global Partners
2.7755 of 5 stars
$52.73
+0.3%
$56.00
+6.2%
+16.6%$1.79B$17.16B16.744,840
WKC
World Kinect
1.3458 of 5 stars
$28.37
+0.7%
$29.00
+2.2%
+17.3%$1.60B$42.17B118.214,745
DSGR
Distribution Solutions Group
3.6869 of 5 stars
$27.47
-0.7%
$40.50
+47.4%
+2.5%$1.28B$1.80B1,374.194,400
GIC
Global Industrial
3.0577 of 5 stars
$26.95
-1.6%
N/A-6.5%$1.05B$1.32B17.061,845
VSTS
Vestis
4.2527 of 5 stars
$5.75
-5.9%
$11.75
+104.3%
-45.4%$805.19M$2.81B-31.9410,800Trending News
CAPL
CrossAmerica Partners
1.318 of 5 stars
$20.79
-0.5%
N/A+5.3%$796.24M$4.10B25.992,220
RYI
Ryerson
1.0949 of 5 stars
$21.63
-2.1%
$25.00
+15.6%
+24.3%$711.53M$4.60B-98.324,200
STKL
SunOpta
3.7407 of 5 stars
$5.80
-1.2%
$9.50
+63.8%
+9.5%$689.97M$723.73M-44.621,248Positive News
MGPI
MGP Ingredients
4.4391 of 5 stars
$29.97
+0.5%
$50.33
+67.9%
-52.7%$634.11M$703.62M66.60690Positive News

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