RUSHB vs. CASY, KMX, PAG, MUSA, LAD, AN, ABG, GPI, RUSHA, and SAH
Should you be buying Rush Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rush Enterprises include Casey's General Stores (CASY), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Murphy USA (MUSA), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), and Sonic Automotive (SAH). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ:RUSHB) and Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
Rush Enterprises has a net margin of 4.16% compared to Casey's General Stores' net margin of 3.23%. Rush Enterprises' return on equity of 17.16% beat Casey's General Stores' return on equity.
Casey's General Stores received 514 more outperform votes than Rush Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.87% of users gave Rush Enterprises an outperform vote while only 62.71% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote.
Rush Enterprises has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
18.1% of Rush Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by institutional investors. 13.9% of Rush Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Casey's General Stores has a consensus target price of $312.63, suggesting a potential downside of 5.77%. Given Casey's General Stores' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Casey's General Stores is more favorable than Rush Enterprises.
Casey's General Stores has higher revenue and earnings than Rush Enterprises. Rush Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Casey's General Stores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rush Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Casey's General Stores pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Rush Enterprises pays out 17.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Casey's General Stores pays out 13.7% 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.
In the previous week, Casey's General Stores had 5 more articles in the media than Rush Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Casey's General Stores and 2 mentions for Rush Enterprises. Casey's General Stores' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Rush Enterprises' score of 0.43 indicating that Casey's General Stores is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Casey's General Stores beats Rush Enterprises on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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