Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) Vs. ORLY, AZO, KMX, AAP, PAG, AN, ABG, GPI, SAH, and MNRO
Should you be buying Lithia Motors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithia Motors include O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), AutoZone (AZO), CarMax (KMX), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Sonic Automotive (SAH), and Monro (MNRO). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
Lithia Motors vs.
AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) and Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
AutoZone has higher revenue and earnings than Lithia Motors. Lithia Motors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AutoZone, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AutoZone presently has a consensus target price of $2,070.59, suggesting a potential upside of 1.82%. Lithia Motors has a consensus target price of $428.00, suggesting a potential upside of 39.42%. Given Lithia Motors' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lithia Motors is more favorable than AutoZone.
91.0% of AutoZone shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.4% of Lithia Motors shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of AutoZone shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Lithia Motors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AutoZone has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lithia Motors has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AutoZone had 18 more articles in the media than Lithia Motors. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for AutoZone and 1 mentions for Lithia Motors. Lithia Motors' average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat AutoZone's score of 0.52 indicating that Lithia Motors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AutoZone received 240 more outperform votes than Lithia Motors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.43% of users gave Lithia Motors an outperform vote while only 68.85% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote.
AutoZone has a net margin of 15.08% compared to Lithia Motors' net margin of 4.67%. Lithia Motors' return on equity of 26.99% beat AutoZone's return on equity.
Summary
AutoZone beats Lithia Motors on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LAD and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
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.
Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) vs. Its Competitors
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