Cosan (CSAN) Competitors

GAP (NYSE:GAP) and Cosan (NYSE:CSAN) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability and community ranking.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in GAP or CSAN?

58.8% of GAP shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.6% of GAP shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts recommend GAP or CSAN?

GAP presently has a consensus target price of $27.21, suggesting a potential downside of 1.82%. Cosan has a consensus target price of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 255.14%. Given Cosan's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cosan is more favorable than GAP.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GAP	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.57
Cosan	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.50

Is GAP or CSAN more profitable?

GAP has a net margin of 5.40% compared to Cosan's net margin of 0.00%. GAP's return on equity of 29.03% beat Cosan's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GAP	5.40%	29.03%	7.26%
Cosan	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media prefer GAP or CSAN?

In the previous week, GAP had 26 more articles in the media than Cosan. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for GAP and 8 mentions for Cosan. Cosan's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat GAP's score of 0.16 indicating that Cosan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
GAP	7 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	9 Neutral mention(s)	9 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Cosan	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has better valuation & earnings, GAP or CSAN?

GAP has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cosan. Cosan is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GAP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GAP	$15.09B	0.69	$502M	$2.21	12.54
Cosan	$43.77B	0.06	$219.21M	$1.32	4.05

Is GAP or CSAN a better dividend stock?

GAP pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Cosan pays an annual dividend of $0.31 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. GAP pays out 29.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cosan pays out 23.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. GAP has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Cosan is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor GAP or CSAN?

GAP received 14 more outperform votes than Cosan when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.00% of users gave GAP an outperform vote while only 10.53% of users gave Cosan an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
GAP	Outperform Votes 16 50.00%	Underperform Votes 16 50.00%
Cosan	Outperform Votes 2 10.53%	Underperform Votes 17 89.47%

Which has more risk and volatility, GAP or CSAN?

GAP has a beta of 2.24, meaning that its share price is 124% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cosan has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

GAP beats Cosan on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.