CARS vs. JOYY, WNS, PAGS, CLVT, SEZL, RNG, FA, GLOB, DXC, and XMTR
Should you be buying Cars.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cars.com include JOYY (JOYY), WNS (WNS), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Clarivate (CLVT), Sezzle (SEZL), Ringcentral (RNG), First Advantage (FA), Globant (GLOB), DXC Technology (DXC), and Xometry (XMTR). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Cars.com vs. Its Competitors
Cars.com (NYSE:CARS) and JOYY (NASDAQ:JOYY) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Cars.com had 1 more articles in the media than JOYY. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Cars.com and 1 mentions for JOYY. JOYY's average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat Cars.com's score of 0.88 indicating that JOYY is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cars.com has higher earnings, but lower revenue than JOYY. JOYY is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cars.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cars.com has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JOYY has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
89.2% of Cars.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.8% of JOYY shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Cars.com shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 43.0% of JOYY shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
JOYY has a net margin of 82.39% compared to Cars.com's net margin of 5.71%. Cars.com's return on equity of 17.43% beat JOYY's return on equity.
Cars.com currently has a consensus price target of $17.30, indicating a potential upside of 28.13%. Given Cars.com's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Cars.com is more favorable than JOYY.
Summary
Cars.com beats JOYY on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CARS 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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This page (NYSE:CARS) was last updated on 9/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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