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LAD vs. ABG, PAG, GPI, RUSHA, RUSHB, CASY, CVNA, CAVA, DDS, and GPS

Should you be buying Lithia Motors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithia Motors include Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Carvana (CVNA), CAVA Group (CAVA), Dillard's (DDS), and GAP (GPS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.

Lithia Motors vs.

Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE:ABG) and Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.

Asbury Automotive Group has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lithia Motors has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Asbury Automotive Group has a net margin of 4.07% compared to Asbury Automotive Group's net margin of 3.22%. Lithia Motors' return on equity of 21.68% beat Asbury Automotive Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Asbury Automotive Group4.07% 21.68% 7.87%
Lithia Motors 3.22%17.33%5.65%

Lithia Motors has higher revenue and earnings than Asbury Automotive Group. Lithia Motors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Asbury Automotive Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Asbury Automotive Group$14.80B0.29$602.50M$28.607.41
Lithia Motors$31.04B0.23$1.00B$36.287.20

Lithia Motors received 156 more outperform votes than Asbury Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.66% of users gave Lithia Motors an outperform vote while only 53.57% of users gave Asbury Automotive Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Asbury Automotive GroupOutperform Votes
323
53.57%
Underperform Votes
280
46.43%
Lithia MotorsOutperform Votes
479
67.66%
Underperform Votes
229
32.34%

Asbury Automotive Group currently has a consensus target price of $235.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.86%. Lithia Motors has a consensus target price of $334.60, suggesting a potential upside of 28.10%. Given Asbury Automotive Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lithia Motors is more favorable than Asbury Automotive Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Asbury Automotive Group
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Lithia Motors
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

In the previous week, Lithia Motors had 5 more articles in the media than Asbury Automotive Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Lithia Motors and 6 mentions for Asbury Automotive Group. Lithia Motors' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Asbury Automotive Group's score of 0.60 indicating that Asbury Automotive Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Asbury Automotive Group
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Lithia Motors
3 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Lithia Motors beats Asbury Automotive Group on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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LAD vs. The Competition

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MetricLithia MotorsAutomotive dealers & gasoline service stations IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.19B$6.73B$14.54B$17.17B
Dividend Yield0.76%1.35%181.44%3.60%
P/E Ratio7.2018.9723.0924.59
Price / Sales0.231.016.3610.03
Price / Cash5.5216.1015.7716.90
Price / Book1.152.704.954.85
Net Income$1.00B$325.98M$643.99M$965.88M
7 Day Performance-1.97%-6.60%-4.78%-3.86%
1 Month Performance-7.92%0.09%-5.88%-2.81%
1 Year Performance15.34%41.04%-0.43%78.01%

Lithia Motors Competitors List

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CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ABG
Asbury Automotive Group
1.7016 of 5 stars		$216.45
+0.6%		$235.00
+8.6%		+3.6%$4.37B$14.80B7.5715,000Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
PAG
Penske Automotive Group
3.1022 of 5 stars		$150.62
+0.8%		$163.20
+8.4%		+4.8%$10.10B$29.53B9.7344,000Upcoming Earnings
GPI
Group 1 Automotive
2.9191 of 5 stars		$269.87
+0.7%		$340.00
+26.0%		+18.2%$3.65B$17.87B6.3316,011Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
RUSHA
Rush Enterprises
3.679 of 5 stars		$49.11
-0.1%		$51.67
+5.2%		+32.8%$3.82B$7.93B11.857,860Upcoming Earnings
RUSHB
Rush Enterprises
1.9884 of 5 stars		$46.84
-0.8%		N/A+91.8%$3.65B$7.93B11.308,390Upcoming Earnings
CASY
Casey's General Stores
3.499 of 5 stars		$312.55
-0.1%		$312.63
+0.0%		+35.5%$11.57B$15.09B24.8520,292Analyst Report
CVNA
Carvana
2.597 of 5 stars		$70.60
+1.1%		$50.53
-28.4%		+663.4%$14.25B$10.77B130.7413,700Analyst Report
Insider Selling
Gap Up
CAVA
CAVA Group
1.3673 of 5 stars		$62.83
+1.7%		$60.42
-3.8%		N/A$7.16B$728.70M0.008,100Analyst Report
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
DDS
Dillard's
2.1415 of 5 stars		$414.81
+3.2%		$305.67
-26.3%		+34.0%$6.73B$6.75B9.2729,600
GPS
GAP
3.7304 of 5 stars		$20.98
-4.1%		$18.89
-10.0%		+122.2%$7.83B$14.89B15.6585,000

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