CARS vs. CLVT, PAGS, STNE, DXC, FIVN, GDRX, RNG, PLTK, CARG, and LIF
Should you be buying Cars.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cars.com include Clarivate (CLVT), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), StoneCo (STNE), DXC Technology (DXC), Five9 (FIVN), GoodRx (GDRX), RingCentral (RNG), Playtika (PLTK), CarGurus (CARG), and Life360 (LIF). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Clarivate (NYSE:CLVT) and Cars.com (NYSE:CARS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Cars.com has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Clarivate. Clarivate 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 received 185 more outperform votes than Clarivate when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.90% of users gave Cars.com an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave Clarivate an outperform vote.
85.7% of Clarivate shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.2% of Cars.com shares are held by institutional investors. 22.8% of Clarivate shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Cars.com shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Clarivate has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cars.com has a beta of 2.21, meaning that its share price is 121% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cars.com has a net margin of 15.34% compared to Cars.com's net margin of -39.29%. Clarivate's return on equity of 22.28% beat Cars.com's return on equity.
Clarivate currently has a consensus target price of $7.78, indicating a potential upside of 10.79%. Cars.com has a consensus target price of $23.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.36%. Given Clarivate's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cars.com is more favorable than Clarivate.
In the previous week, Cars.com had 61 more articles in the media than Clarivate. MarketBeat recorded 66 mentions for Cars.com and 5 mentions for Clarivate. Cars.com's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Clarivate's score of -0.08 indicating that Clarivate is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Cars.com beats Clarivate on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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