QRTEB vs. SAH, CNXN, IMKTA, RVLV, FWRG, CBRL, CAKE, WINA, KRUS, and ODP
Should you be buying Qurate Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Qurate Retail include Sonic Automotive (SAH), PC Connection (CNXN), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Revolve Group (RVLV), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Winmark (WINA), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), and ODP (ODP). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEB) and Sonic Automotive (NYSE:SAH) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Sonic Automotive has higher revenue and earnings than Qurate Retail. Qurate Retail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sonic Automotive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sonic Automotive had 19 more articles in the media than Qurate Retail. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Sonic Automotive and 2 mentions for Qurate Retail. Sonic Automotive's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Qurate Retail's score of -0.03 indicating that Sonic Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
2.3% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.9% of Sonic Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.0% of Sonic Automotive shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sonic Automotive has a consensus price target of $56.00, suggesting a potential downside of 10.11%. Given Sonic Automotive's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sonic Automotive is more favorable than Qurate Retail.
Sonic Automotive received 44 more outperform votes than Qurate Retail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.78% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 51.92% of users gave Sonic Automotive an outperform vote.
Qurate Retail has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sonic Automotive has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sonic Automotive has a net margin of 1.21% compared to Qurate Retail's net margin of -1.33%. Sonic Automotive's return on equity of 27.69% beat Qurate Retail's return on equity.
Summary
Sonic Automotive beats Qurate Retail on 16 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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