ORLY vs. AAP, AZO, KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, GPI, ABG, SAH, and CRMT
Should you be buying O'Reilly Automotive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of O'Reilly Automotive include Advance Auto Parts (AAP), AutoZone (AZO), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Sonic Automotive (SAH), and America's Car-Mart (CRMT). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
O'Reilly Automotive vs. Its Competitors
O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) and Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.
85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Advance Auto Parts shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Advance Auto Parts shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
O'Reilly Automotive presently has a consensus price target of $94.38, suggesting a potential upside of 2.16%. Advance Auto Parts has a consensus price target of $46.53, suggesting a potential downside of 21.99%. Given O'Reilly Automotive's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe O'Reilly Automotive is more favorable than Advance Auto Parts.
In the previous week, O'Reilly Automotive had 13 more articles in the media than Advance Auto Parts. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive and 7 mentions for Advance Auto Parts. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Advance Auto Parts' score of 0.66 indicating that O'Reilly Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
O'Reilly Automotive has higher revenue and earnings than Advance Auto Parts. Advance Auto Parts 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.
O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advance Auto Parts has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
O'Reilly Automotive has a net margin of 14.10% compared to Advance Auto Parts' net margin of -3.74%. Advance Auto Parts' return on equity of -1.76% beat O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity.
Summary
O'Reilly Automotive beats Advance Auto Parts on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ORLY) was last updated on 7/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff