ABG vs. GPI, AN, CWH, KAR, SAH, LAD, CRMT, MUSA, VRM, and PAG
Should you be buying Asbury Automotive Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asbury Automotive Group include Group 1 Automotive (GPI), AutoNation (AN), Camping World (CWH), OPENLANE (KAR), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Lithia Motors (LAD), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Murphy USA (MUSA), Vroom (VRM), and Penske Automotive Group (PAG).
Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE:ABG) and Group 1 Automotive (NYSE:GPI) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings and risk.
99.9% of Group 1 Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Asbury Automotive Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Group 1 Automotive shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Asbury Automotive Group currently has a consensus target price of $235.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.66%. Group 1 Automotive has a consensus target price of $331.67, indicating a potential upside of 18.65%. Given Group 1 Automotive's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Group 1 Automotive is more favorable than Asbury Automotive Group.
Asbury Automotive Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Group 1 Automotive. Group 1 Automotive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Asbury Automotive Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Group 1 Automotive had 9 more articles in the media than Asbury Automotive Group. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Group 1 Automotive and 8 mentions for Asbury Automotive Group. Asbury Automotive Group's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Group 1 Automotive's score of 0.19 indicating that Asbury Automotive Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Group 1 Automotive received 132 more outperform votes than Asbury Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.11% of users gave Group 1 Automotive an outperform vote while only 53.57% of users gave Asbury Automotive Group an outperform vote.
Asbury Automotive Group has a net margin of 4.07% compared to Group 1 Automotive's net margin of 3.34%. Group 1 Automotive's return on equity of 24.36% beat Asbury Automotive Group's return on equity.
Asbury Automotive Group has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Group 1 Automotive has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Group 1 Automotive beats Asbury Automotive Group on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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