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Should you be buying Advance Auto Parts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advance Auto Parts include Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Shake Shack (SHAK), Capri (CPRI), Signet Jewelers (SIG), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Wendy's (WEN), Urban Outfitters (URBN), GameStop (GME), and GMS (GMS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE:ABG) and Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Advance Auto Parts received 584 more outperform votes than Asbury Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.26% of users gave Advance Auto Parts an outperform vote while only 53.64% of users gave Asbury Automotive Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Asbury Automotive Group and Asbury Automotive Group both had 11 articles in the media. Asbury Automotive Group's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Advance Auto Parts' score of 0.55 indicating that Advance Auto Parts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Asbury Automotive Group has higher revenue and earnings than Advance Auto Parts. Asbury Automotive Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advance Auto Parts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Asbury Automotive Group has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advance Auto Parts has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Asbury Automotive Group presently has a consensus target price of $231.25, suggesting a potential downside of 4.10%. Advance Auto Parts has a consensus target price of $64.56, suggesting a potential downside of 13.40%. Given Advance Auto Parts' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Asbury Automotive Group is more favorable than Advance Auto Parts.
Asbury Automotive Group has a net margin of 3.68% compared to Asbury Automotive Group's net margin of 0.39%. Advance Auto Parts' return on equity of 20.12% beat Asbury Automotive Group's return on equity.
88.8% of Advance Auto Parts shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Asbury Automotive Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Advance Auto Parts shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Asbury Automotive Group beats Advance Auto Parts on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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