Aaron's (NYSE:AAN) Vs. URI, AER, AL, TRTN, RCII, PRG, MGRC, CTOS, TGH, and CAI
Should you be buying Aaron's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aaron's include United Rentals (URI), AerCap (AER), Air Lease (AL), Triton International (TRTN), Rent-A-Center (RCII), PROG (PRG), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), Textainer Group (TGH), and CAI International (CAI). These companies are all part of the "homefurnishing retail" industry.These companies are all part of the "equipment rental & leasing, not elsewhere classified" industry.These companies are all part of the "equipment rental & leasing, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Aaron's vs.
AerCap (NYSE:AER) and Aaron's (NYSE:AAN) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Aaron's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AerCap. AerCap is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aaron's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AerCap presently has a consensus target price of $76.80, suggesting a potential upside of 38.18%. Aaron's has a consensus target price of $26.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.99%. Given AerCap's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe AerCap is more favorable than Aaron's.
In the previous week, Aaron's had 5 more articles in the media than AerCap. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Aaron's and 4 mentions for AerCap. AerCap's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Aaron's' score of -0.20 indicating that AerCap is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AerCap has a net margin of 19.53% compared to Aaron's' net margin of 5.27%. Aaron's' return on equity of 18.55% beat AerCap's return on equity.
91.2% of AerCap shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Aaron's shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Aaron's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AerCap received 4 more outperform votes than Aaron's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.07% of users gave AerCap an outperform vote while only 71.87% of users gave Aaron's an outperform vote.
Summary
AerCap beats Aaron's on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding AAN 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 NYSE 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.
Aaron's (NYSE:AAN) vs. Its Competitors
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