CRMT vs. MNRO, TA, KAR, SAH, RUSHA, ORLY, AZO, KMX, PAG, and LAD
Should you be buying America's Car-Mart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of America's Car-Mart include Monro (MNRO), TravelCenters of America (TA), OPENLANE (KAR), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), AutoZone (AZO), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), and Lithia Motors (LAD).
Monro (NASDAQ:MNRO) and America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ:CRMT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, Monro had 51 more articles in the media than America's Car-Mart. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for Monro and 3 mentions for America's Car-Mart. Monro's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat America's Car-Mart's score of -0.25 indicating that America's Car-Mart is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Monro received 61 more outperform votes than America's Car-Mart when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.06% of users gave Monro an outperform vote while only 50.20% of users gave America's Car-Mart an outperform vote.
Monro has higher earnings, but lower revenue than America's Car-Mart. America's Car-Mart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Monro has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, America's Car-Mart has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
89.1% of America's Car-Mart shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Monro shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of America's Car-Mart shares are held 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.
Monro has a net margin of 2.94% compared to Monro's net margin of -2.10%. America's Car-Mart's return on equity of 6.25% beat Monro's return on equity.
Monro currently has a consensus price target of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 48.24%. America's Car-Mart has a consensus price target of $66.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.93%. Given America's Car-Mart's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Monro is more favorable than America's Car-Mart.
Summary
Monro beats America's Car-Mart on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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