CVNA vs. CASY, KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, DLTR, QSR, DECK, EBAY, and BLDR
Should you be buying Carvana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carvana include Casey's General Stores (CASY), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Dollar Tree (DLTR), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Deckers Outdoor (DECK), eBay (EBAY), and Builders FirstSource (BLDR). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Carvana (NYSE:CVNA) and Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Carvana currently has a consensus target price of $77.60, indicating a potential downside of 33.98%. Casey's General Stores has a consensus target price of $312.63, indicating a potential downside of 6.81%. Given Casey's General Stores' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Casey's General Stores is more favorable than Carvana.
Carvana has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Casey's General Stores. Casey's General Stores is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carvana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carvana has a net margin of 5.68% compared to Casey's General Stores' net margin of 3.23%. Casey's General Stores' return on equity of 16.70% beat Carvana's return on equity.
56.7% of Carvana shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.1% of Carvana shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Casey's General Stores received 106 more outperform votes than Carvana when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.71% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote while only 58.14% of users gave Carvana an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Carvana had 15 more articles in the media than Casey's General Stores. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Carvana and 10 mentions for Casey's General Stores. Carvana's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Casey's General Stores' score of 0.61 indicating that Carvana is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Carvana has a beta of 3.28, meaning that its share price is 228% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Casey's General Stores beats Carvana on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Carvana News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for CVNA and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CVNA and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Related Companies and Tools
