CVNA vs. CPRT, CASY, KMX, PAG, MUSA, LAD, AN, ABG, GPI, and RUSHA
Should you be buying Carvana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carvana include Copart (CPRT), 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), and Rush Enterprises (RUSHA). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
Carvana (NYSE:CVNA) and Copart (NASDAQ:CPRT) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and community ranking.
56.7% of Carvana shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Copart shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.1% of Carvana shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Copart shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Copart has a net margin of 33.33% compared to Carvana's net margin of 5.68%. Copart's return on equity of 20.80% beat Carvana's return on equity.
Carvana presently has a consensus target price of $77.60, indicating a potential downside of 22.38%. Copart has a consensus target price of $51.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.88%. Given Copart's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Copart is more favorable than Carvana.
Copart has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Carvana. Copart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carvana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Carvana and Carvana both had 17 articles in the media. Copart's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Carvana's score of 0.01 indicating that Copart is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carvana received 139 more outperform votes than Copart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.80% of users gave Copart an outperform vote while only 58.14% of users gave Carvana an outperform vote.
Carvana has a beta of 3.28, suggesting that its share price is 228% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copart has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Copart beats Carvana on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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