MGRC vs. AYR, TGH, UNF, KAR, RCII, TRTN, CAI, HCSG, VVI, and PFMT
Should you be buying McGrath RentCorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McGrath RentCorp include Aircastle (AYR), Textainer Group (TGH), UniFirst (UNF), OPENLANE (KAR), Rent-A-Center (RCII), Triton International (TRTN), CAI International (CAI), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Viad (VVI), and Performant Financial (PFMT).
Aircastle (NYSE:AYR) and McGrath RentCorp (NASDAQ:MGRC) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
58.3% of Aircastle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of McGrath RentCorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Aircastle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of McGrath RentCorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Aircastle has a net margin of 17.06% compared to Aircastle's net margin of 14.70%. Aircastle's return on equity of 13.43% beat McGrath RentCorp's return on equity.
McGrath RentCorp has a consensus price target of $116.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.49%. Given Aircastle's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe McGrath RentCorp is more favorable than Aircastle.
McGrath RentCorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Aircastle. Aircastle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McGrath RentCorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aircastle received 102 more outperform votes than McGrath RentCorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.74% of users gave Aircastle an outperform vote while only 58.64% of users gave McGrath RentCorp an outperform vote.
Aircastle has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McGrath RentCorp has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Aircastle pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. McGrath RentCorp pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Aircastle pays out 62.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. McGrath RentCorp pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. McGrath RentCorp has increased its dividend for 32 consecutive years.
In the previous week, McGrath RentCorp had 11 more articles in the media than Aircastle. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for McGrath RentCorp and 0 mentions for Aircastle. McGrath RentCorp's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Aircastle's score of -0.21 indicating that Aircastle is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
McGrath RentCorp beats Aircastle on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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