ORLY vs. AZO, KMX, PAG, AN, LAD, ABG, GPI, AAP, SAH, and MNRO
Should you be buying O'Reilly Automotive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of O'Reilly Automotive include AutoZone (AZO), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), AutoNation (AN), Lithia Motors (LAD), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Sonic Automotive (SAH), and Monro (MNRO). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) and O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
AutoZone received 9 more outperform votes than O'Reilly Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.41% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote while only 66.70% of users gave O'Reilly Automotive an outperform vote.
AutoZone has higher revenue and earnings than O'Reilly Automotive. AutoZone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than O'Reilly Automotive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AutoZone has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AutoZone presently has a consensus target price of $3,112.71, suggesting a potential upside of 0.50%. O'Reilly Automotive has a consensus target price of $1,130.67, suggesting a potential upside of 1.83%. Given AutoZone's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe O'Reilly Automotive is more favorable than AutoZone.
92.7% of AutoZone shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of AutoZone shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by company 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.
AutoZone has a net margin of 14.60% compared to AutoZone's net margin of 14.57%. O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity of -54.58% beat AutoZone's return on equity.
In the previous week, O'Reilly Automotive had 29 more articles in the media than AutoZone. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive and 12 mentions for AutoZone. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat AutoZone's score of 0.15 indicating that AutoZone is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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