AZO vs. ORLY, KMX, PAG, AN, LAD, ABG, GPI, AAP, SAH, and MNRO
Should you be buying AutoZone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AutoZone include O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), AutoNation (AN), Lithia Motors (LAD), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Sonic Automotive (SAH), and Monro (MNRO). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) and AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of AutoZone shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of AutoZone shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, O'Reilly Automotive had 30 more articles in the media than AutoZone. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive and 12 mentions for AutoZone. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat AutoZone's score of 0.15 indicating that AutoZone is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AutoZone has higher revenue and earnings than O'Reilly Automotive. AutoZone 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.
O'Reilly Automotive currently has a consensus price target of $1,130.67, suggesting a potential upside of 1.83%. AutoZone has a consensus price target of $3,112.71, suggesting a potential upside of 0.50%. Given AutoZone's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe O'Reilly Automotive is more favorable than AutoZone.
AutoZone has a net margin of 14.60% compared to AutoZone's net margin of 14.57%. O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity of -54.58% beat AutoZone's return on equity.
O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AutoZone has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AutoZone received 9 more outperform votes than O'Reilly Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.41% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote while only 66.70% of users gave O'Reilly Automotive an outperform vote.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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