LAD vs. PAG, KMX, AN, GPI, ABG, AAP, SAH, MNRO, CRMT, 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), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Monro (MNRO), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), and O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
Lithia Motors vs. Its Competitors
Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) and Penske Automotive Group (NYSE:PAG) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Lithia Motors has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Penske Automotive Group has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Lithia Motors received 144 more outperform votes than Penske Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.18% of users gave Lithia Motors an outperform vote while only 60.07% of users gave Penske Automotive Group an outperform vote.
77.1% of Penske Automotive Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Lithia Motors shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.7% of Penske Automotive Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lithia Motors presently has a consensus price target of $362.40, indicating a potential upside of 7.68%. Penske Automotive Group has a consensus price target of $167.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.78%. Given Lithia Motors' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Lithia Motors is more favorable than Penske Automotive Group.
Lithia Motors pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Penske Automotive Group pays an annual dividend of $5.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Lithia Motors pays out 6.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Penske Automotive Group pays out 35.5% 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. Lithia Motors has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years and Penske Automotive Group has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
Penske Automotive Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
In the previous week, Penske Automotive Group had 3 more articles in the media than Lithia Motors. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Penske Automotive Group and 8 mentions for Lithia Motors. Lithia Motors' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Penske Automotive Group's score of 0.64 indicating that Lithia Motors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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