KAR vs. UNF, MGRC, HCSG, VVI, PFMT, CTAS, CPRT, IRM, LAD, and AN
Should you be buying OPENLANE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OPENLANE include UniFirst (UNF), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Viad (VVI), Performant Financial (PFMT), Cintas (CTAS), Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), Lithia Motors (LAD), and AutoNation (AN).
OPENLANE (NYSE:KAR) and UniFirst (NYSE:UNF) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
UniFirst has higher revenue and earnings than OPENLANE. OPENLANE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UniFirst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UniFirst has a net margin of 4.92% compared to OPENLANE's net margin of -9.04%. OPENLANE's return on equity of 8.53% beat UniFirst's return on equity.
OPENLANE received 407 more outperform votes than UniFirst when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.08% of users gave OPENLANE an outperform vote while only 53.21% of users gave UniFirst an outperform vote.
OPENLANE presently has a consensus price target of $19.60, suggesting a potential upside of 16.81%. UniFirst has a consensus price target of $177.75, suggesting a potential upside of 15.68%. Given OPENLANE's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe OPENLANE is more favorable than UniFirst.
99.8% of OPENLANE shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.2% of UniFirst shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of OPENLANE shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of UniFirst shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, OPENLANE and OPENLANE both had 5 articles in the media. OPENLANE's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat UniFirst's score of 0.58 indicating that OPENLANE is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OPENLANE has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UniFirst has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
OPENLANE beats UniFirst on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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