GPC vs. POOL, LKQ, WEYS, VOXX, CVS, CMG, TGT, ORLY, AZO, and ROST
Should you be buying Genuine Parts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genuine Parts include Pool (POOL), LKQ (LKQ), Weyco Group (WEYS), VOXX International (VOXX), CVS Health (CVS), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Target (TGT), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), AutoZone (AZO), and Ross Stores (ROST).
Pool (NASDAQ:POOL) and Genuine Parts (NYSE:GPC) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Pool presently has a consensus target price of $347.22, indicating a potential downside of 6.62%. Genuine Parts has a consensus target price of $161.14, indicating a potential upside of 13.42%. Given Pool's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Genuine Parts is more favorable than Pool.
Genuine Parts has higher revenue and earnings than Pool. Genuine Parts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pool, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pool has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Genuine Parts has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Pool had 37 more articles in the media than Genuine Parts. MarketBeat recorded 78 mentions for Pool and 41 mentions for Genuine Parts. Genuine Parts' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Pool's score of 0.02 indicating that Pool is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.0% of Pool shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.8% of Genuine Parts shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Pool shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Genuine Parts shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pool received 122 more outperform votes than Genuine Parts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.43% of users gave Pool an outperform vote while only 47.81% of users gave Genuine Parts an outperform vote.
Pool has a net margin of 8.58% compared to Pool's net margin of 5.24%. Genuine Parts' return on equity of 32.85% beat Pool's return on equity.
Pool pays an annual dividend of $4.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Genuine Parts pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Pool pays out 37.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Genuine Parts pays out 44.6% 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. Pool has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Genuine Parts has increased its dividend for 69 consecutive years. Genuine Parts is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Pool beats Genuine Parts on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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