ORLY vs. AZO, JD, DG, CMG, MELI, YUM, ROST, KR, DLTR, and FAST
Should you be buying O'Reilly Automotive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of O'Reilly Automotive include AutoZone (AZO), JD.com (JD), Dollar General (DG), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), MercadoLibre (MELI), Yum! Brands (YUM), Ross Stores (ROST), Kroger (KR), Dollar Tree (DLTR), and Fastenal (FAST). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
O'Reilly Automotive vs.
O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) and AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AutoZone has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
90.5% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.1% of AutoZone shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of AutoZone shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AutoZone received 6 more outperform votes than O'Reilly Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.03% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote while only 66.79% of users gave O'Reilly Automotive an outperform vote.
O'Reilly Automotive has a net margin of 15.08% compared to AutoZone's net margin of 14.32%. AutoZone's return on equity of -64.72% beat O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity.
In the previous week, AutoZone had 9 more articles in the media than O'Reilly Automotive. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for AutoZone and 10 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat AutoZone's score of 0.43 indicating that O'Reilly Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
O'Reilly Automotive currently has a consensus target price of $859.60, suggesting a potential upside of 6.02%. AutoZone has a consensus target price of $2,652.76, suggesting a potential upside of 13.88%. Given AutoZone's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AutoZone is more favorable than O'Reilly Automotive.
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.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ORLY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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