ACVA vs. KAR, LZ, SSTK, FRG, OPRX, Z, ZG, CART, WEX, and ETSY
Should you be buying ACV Auctions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ACV Auctions include OPENLANE (KAR), LegalZoom.com (LZ), Shutterstock (SSTK), Franchise Group (FRG), OptimizeRx (OPRX), Zillow Group (Z), Zillow Group (ZG), Maplebear (CART), WEX (WEX), and Etsy (ETSY).
ACV Auctions (NASDAQ:ACVA) and OPENLANE (NYSE:KAR) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
OPENLANE received 588 more outperform votes than ACV Auctions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.08% of users gave OPENLANE an outperform vote while only 50.50% of users gave ACV Auctions an outperform vote.
ACV Auctions currently has a consensus target price of $20.33, indicating a potential upside of 13.91%. OPENLANE has a consensus target price of $19.60, indicating a potential upside of 13.62%. Given ACV Auctions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ACV Auctions is more favorable than OPENLANE.
ACV Auctions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than OPENLANE. ACV Auctions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OPENLANE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ACV Auctions has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OPENLANE has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ACV Auctions had 6 more articles in the media than OPENLANE. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ACV Auctions and 1 mentions for OPENLANE. OPENLANE's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat ACV Auctions' score of 0.53 indicating that OPENLANE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
OPENLANE has a net margin of -9.04% compared to ACV Auctions' net margin of -15.28%. OPENLANE's return on equity of 8.53% beat ACV Auctions' return on equity.
88.6% of ACV Auctions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of OPENLANE shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of ACV Auctions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of OPENLANE shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
ACV Auctions and OPENLANE tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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