AAP vs. ORLY, AZO, KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, GPI, ABG, SAH, and CRMT
Should you be buying Advance Auto Parts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advance Auto Parts include O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), 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.
Advance Auto Parts vs. Its Competitors
Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) and O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Advance Auto Parts currently has a consensus target price of $46.53, indicating a potential downside of 25.72%. O'Reilly Automotive has a consensus target price of $94.38, indicating a potential upside of 3.01%. Given O'Reilly Automotive's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe O'Reilly Automotive is more favorable than Advance Auto Parts.
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.
In the previous week, O'Reilly Automotive had 9 more articles in the media than Advance Auto Parts. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive and 6 mentions for Advance Auto Parts. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Advance Auto Parts' score of 0.72 indicating that O'Reilly Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Advance Auto Parts has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its share price is 42% less 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.
88.8% of Advance Auto Parts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Advance Auto Parts shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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 (NYSE:AAP) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
