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$225.30 -6.41 (-2.77%)
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ABG vs. PAG, KMX, LAD, AN, GPI, SAH, AAP, CRMT, MNRO, and ORLY

Should you be buying Asbury Automotive Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asbury Automotive Group include Penske Automotive Group (PAG), CarMax (KMX), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Monro (MNRO), and O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.

Asbury Automotive Group vs.

Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE:ABG) and Penske Automotive Group (NYSE:PAG) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Asbury Automotive Group currently has a consensus target price of $258.50, indicating a potential upside of 14.35%. Penske Automotive Group has a consensus target price of $167.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.87%. Given Asbury Automotive Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Asbury Automotive Group is more favorable than Penske Automotive Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Asbury Automotive Group
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.14
Penske Automotive Group
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Penske Automotive Group has higher revenue and earnings than Asbury Automotive Group. Asbury Automotive Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Penske Automotive Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Asbury Automotive Group$17.14B0.26$430.30M$21.0110.76
Penske Automotive Group$30.61B0.35$918.90M$14.2011.43

Asbury Automotive Group has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Penske Automotive Group has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Penske Automotive Group had 18 more articles in the media than Asbury Automotive Group. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Penske Automotive Group and 14 mentions for Asbury Automotive Group. Asbury Automotive Group's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Penske Automotive Group's score of 0.99 indicating that Asbury Automotive Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Asbury Automotive Group
9 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Penske Automotive Group
11 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

77.1% of Penske Automotive Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Asbury Automotive Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.7% of Penske Automotive Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Penske Automotive Group has a net margin of 3.02% compared to Asbury Automotive Group's net margin of 2.50%. Penske Automotive Group's return on equity of 18.05% beat Asbury Automotive Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Asbury Automotive Group2.50% 16.29% 5.34%
Penske Automotive Group 3.02%18.05%5.50%

Penske Automotive Group received 28 more outperform votes than Asbury Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.17% of users gave Penske Automotive Group an outperform vote while only 52.40% of users gave Asbury Automotive Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Asbury Automotive GroupOutperform Votes
327
52.40%
Underperform Votes
297
47.60%
Penske Automotive GroupOutperform Votes
355
60.17%
Underperform Votes
235
39.83%

Summary

Penske Automotive Group beats Asbury Automotive Group on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ABG vs. The Competition

MetricAsbury Automotive GroupAutomotive dealers & gasoline service stations IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.45B$9.06B$24.95B$19.40B
Dividend YieldN/A1.42%169.79%3.84%
P/E Ratio10.5324.2124.1934.34
Price / Sales0.262.633.9634.82
Price / Cash8.7319.0319.4117.51
Price / Book1.434.736.134.70
Net Income$430.30M$310.64M$784.05M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-3.95%-0.88%-1.01%-1.17%
1 Month Performance4.04%2.91%11.82%9.98%
1 Year Performance-5.81%0.64%7.11%3.41%

Asbury Automotive Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ABG
Asbury Automotive Group
2.9758 of 5 stars
$225.30
-2.8%
$258.50
+14.7%
-3.1%$4.43B$17.14B10.4713,000Positive News
PAG
Penske Automotive Group
3.7695 of 5 stars
$165.48
+3.9%
$165.00
-0.3%
+6.9%$10.95B$30.61B12.0326,500News Coverage
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
Buyback Announcement
Analyst Revision
KMX
CarMax
4.6266 of 5 stars
$69.03
+4.4%
$87.73
+27.1%
-8.0%$10.54B$26.35B23.4032,600Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
LAD
Lithia Motors
4.649 of 5 stars
$321.78
+5.3%
$361.20
+12.3%
+19.3%$8.38B$36.80B10.8421,900Positive News
AN
AutoNation
4.1518 of 5 stars
$188.73
+5.0%
$200.75
+6.4%
+9.7%$7.12B$26.97B11.1423,600Positive News
GPI
Group 1 Automotive
3.6364 of 5 stars
$443.49
+3.1%
$449.86
+1.4%
+41.2%$5.74B$20.97B12.0715,500
SAH
Sonic Automotive
3.4421 of 5 stars
$68.25
+5.2%
$69.83
+2.3%
+19.7%$2.32B$14.49B11.0410,300News Coverage
Positive News
AAP
Advance Auto Parts
4.2977 of 5 stars
$33.37
+8.1%
$45.13
+35.2%
-53.0%$2.00B$9.09B45.7267,000News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
CRMT
America's Car-Mart
1.9605 of 5 stars
$52.89
+7.3%
$50.00
-5.5%
-21.1%$436.98M$1.39B-64.502,100Positive News
MNRO
Monro
3.4459 of 5 stars
$13.07
+7.0%
$17.33
+32.6%
-48.8%$391.43M$1.21B20.428,750Upcoming Earnings
ORLY
O'Reilly Automotive
3.7619 of 5 stars
$1,339.61
-1.5%
$1,414.56
+5.6%
+39.3%$76.68B$16.87B32.9587,700Insider Trade

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