AN vs. KMX, PAG, LAD, ABG, GPI, AAP, SAH, MNRO, CRMT, and ORLY
Should you be buying AutoNation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AutoNation include CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), 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.
AutoNation (NYSE:AN) and CarMax (NYSE:KMX) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and media sentiment.
AutoNation has a net margin of 3.41% compared to CarMax's net margin of 1.81%. AutoNation's return on equity of 42.44% beat CarMax's return on equity.
94.6% of AutoNation shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of AutoNation shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of CarMax shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CarMax received 310 more outperform votes than AutoNation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.90% of users gave CarMax an outperform vote while only 56.31% of users gave AutoNation an outperform vote.
AutoNation has higher revenue and earnings than CarMax. AutoNation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CarMax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AutoNation has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarMax has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AutoNation had 1 more articles in the media than CarMax. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for AutoNation and 5 mentions for CarMax. AutoNation's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat CarMax's score of 0.82 indicating that AutoNation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AutoNation currently has a consensus price target of $178.88, indicating a potential upside of 5.07%. CarMax has a consensus price target of $77.42, indicating a potential upside of 10.19%. Given CarMax's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CarMax is more favorable than AutoNation.
Summary
AutoNation beats CarMax on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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