AZO vs. ORLY, JD, ROST, CPNG, KR, YUM, FAST, CVS, DG, and TSCO
Should you be buying AutoZone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AutoZone include O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), JD.com (JD), Ross Stores (ROST), Coupang (CPNG), Kroger (KR), Yum! Brands (YUM), Fastenal (FAST), CVS Health (CVS), Dollar General (DG), and Tractor Supply (TSCO). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) and O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
92.7% of AutoZone shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of AutoZone shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, O'Reilly Automotive had 7 more articles in the media than AutoZone. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive and 14 mentions for AutoZone. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat AutoZone's score of 0.67 indicating that O'Reilly Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AutoZone received 4 more outperform votes than O'Reilly Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.10% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote while only 66.52% of users gave O'Reilly Automotive an outperform vote.
AutoZone presently has a consensus target price of $3,115.24, suggesting a potential upside of 6.78%. O'Reilly Automotive has a consensus target price of $1,123.64, suggesting a potential upside of 11.03%. Given O'Reilly Automotive's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe O'Reilly Automotive is more favorable than AutoZone.
AutoZone has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AutoZone has higher revenue and earnings than O'Reilly Automotive. AutoZone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than O'Reilly Automotive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
O'Reilly Automotive has a net margin of 14.78% compared to AutoZone's net margin of 14.70%. AutoZone's return on equity of -56.06% beat O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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