AZO vs. ORLY, YUM, ROST, DG, JD, KR, FAST, DLTR, CMG, and CPNG
Should you be buying AutoZone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AutoZone include O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Yum! Brands (YUM), Ross Stores (ROST), Dollar General (DG), JD.com (JD), Kroger (KR), Fastenal (FAST), Dollar Tree (DLTR), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), and Coupang (CPNG). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
AutoZone vs.
O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) and AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AutoZone has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AutoZone received 2 more outperform votes than O'Reilly Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.25% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote while only 66.27% of users gave O'Reilly Automotive an outperform vote.
90.5% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.1% of AutoZone shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of AutoZone shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
O'Reilly Automotive currently has a consensus price target of $933.38, suggesting a potential upside of 2.91%. AutoZone has a consensus price target of $2,696.89, suggesting a potential upside of 14.02%. Given AutoZone's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AutoZone is more favorable than O'Reilly Automotive.
O'Reilly Automotive has a net margin of 14.90% compared to AutoZone's net margin of 14.45%. AutoZone's return on equity of -64.19% beat O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity.
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.
In the previous week, AutoZone had 13 more articles in the media than O'Reilly Automotive. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for AutoZone and 6 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat AutoZone's score of 0.54 indicating that O'Reilly Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding AZO 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.
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