LAD vs. KMX, PAG, AN, ABG, GPI, AAP, SAH, MNRO, CRMT, and ORLY
Should you be buying Lithia Motors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithia Motors include CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), AutoNation (AN), 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.
Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) and CarMax (NYSE:KMX) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Lithia Motors has a net margin of 2.87% compared to CarMax's net margin of 1.81%. Lithia Motors' return on equity of 15.62% beat CarMax's return on equity.
Lithia Motors has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarMax has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CarMax had 3 more articles in the media than Lithia Motors. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for CarMax and 2 mentions for Lithia Motors. CarMax's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Lithia Motors' score of 0.23 indicating that CarMax is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lithia Motors has higher revenue and earnings than CarMax. Lithia Motors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CarMax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CarMax received 205 more outperform votes than Lithia Motors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.13% of users gave Lithia Motors an outperform vote while only 63.90% of users gave CarMax an outperform vote.
Lithia Motors currently has a consensus price target of $318.55, indicating a potential upside of 25.84%. CarMax has a consensus price target of $77.42, indicating a potential upside of 10.19%. Given Lithia Motors' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lithia Motors is more favorable than CarMax.
Summary
Lithia Motors beats CarMax on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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