MUSA vs. CVNA, CASY, KMX, PAG, AN, LAD, ABG, GPI, RUSHA, and RUSHB
Should you be buying Murphy USA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Murphy USA include Carvana (CVNA), Casey's General Stores (CASY), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), AutoNation (AN), Lithia Motors (LAD), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), and Rush Enterprises (RUSHB). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
Carvana (NYSE:CVNA) and Murphy USA (NYSE:MUSA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings and risk.
56.7% of Carvana shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.8% of Murphy USA shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.1% of Carvana shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Murphy USA shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Carvana had 6 more articles in the media than Murphy USA. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Carvana and 21 mentions for Murphy USA. Carvana's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Murphy USA's score of 0.69 indicating that Murphy USA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carvana has a beta of 3.37, indicating that its stock price is 237% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Murphy USA has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Carvana presently has a consensus target price of $105.14, indicating a potential downside of 20.78%. Murphy USA has a consensus target price of $428.83, indicating a potential downside of 15.96%. Given Carvana's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Murphy USA is more favorable than Carvana.
Carvana has a net margin of 5.68% compared to Carvana's net margin of 2.43%. Carvana's return on equity of 64.45% beat Murphy USA's return on equity.
Murphy USA has higher revenue and earnings than Carvana. Murphy USA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carvana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carvana received 160 more outperform votes than Murphy USA when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.06% of users gave Murphy USA an outperform vote while only 58.09% of users gave Carvana an outperform vote.
Summary
Murphy USA beats Carvana on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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