LAD vs. PAG, KMX, AN, GPI, ABG, SAH, AAP, CRMT, MNRO, and ORLY
Should you be buying Lithia Motors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithia Motors include Penske Automotive Group (PAG), CarMax (KMX), AutoNation (AN), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Monro (MNRO), and O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
Lithia Motors vs.
Penske Automotive Group (NYSE:PAG) and Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and valuation.
77.1% of Penske Automotive Group shares are held by institutional investors. 51.7% of Penske Automotive Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Lithia Motors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Penske Automotive Group has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lithia Motors has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lithia Motors received 144 more outperform votes than Penske Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.27% of users gave Lithia Motors an outperform vote while only 60.17% of users gave Penske Automotive Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Penske Automotive Group had 8 more articles in the media than Lithia Motors. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Penske Automotive Group and 18 mentions for Lithia Motors. Lithia Motors' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Penske Automotive Group's score of 0.94 indicating that Lithia Motors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Penske Automotive Group pays an annual dividend of $5.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Lithia Motors pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Penske Automotive Group pays out 35.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lithia Motors pays out 6.9% 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. Penske Automotive Group has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Lithia Motors has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years.
Penske Automotive Group has a net margin of 3.02% compared to Lithia Motors' net margin of 2.21%. Penske Automotive Group's return on equity of 18.05% beat Lithia Motors' return on equity.
Penske Automotive Group presently has a consensus price target of $167.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.39%. Lithia Motors has a consensus price target of $361.20, indicating a potential upside of 17.51%. Given Lithia Motors' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lithia Motors is more favorable than Penske Automotive Group.
Penske Automotive Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lithia Motors. Lithia Motors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Penske Automotive Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lithia Motors beats Penske Automotive Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:LAD) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff