LAD vs. AN, ABG, GPI, PAG, KMX, SAH, RUSHA, RUSHB, CASY, and CVNA
Should you be buying Lithia Motors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithia Motors include AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), CarMax (KMX), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), Casey's General Stores (CASY), and Carvana (CVNA). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
AutoNation (NYSE:AN) and Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
AutoNation has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lithia Motors has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AutoNation has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lithia Motors. Lithia Motors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AutoNation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AutoNation had 1 more articles in the media than Lithia Motors. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for AutoNation and 10 mentions for Lithia Motors. Lithia Motors' average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat AutoNation's score of -0.13 indicating that AutoNation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AutoNation presently has a consensus price target of $178.88, indicating a potential upside of 4.63%. Lithia Motors has a consensus price target of $318.55, indicating a potential upside of 18.66%. Given AutoNation's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lithia Motors is more favorable than AutoNation.
AutoNation has a net margin of 3.41% compared to AutoNation's net margin of 2.87%. Lithia Motors' return on equity of 42.44% beat AutoNation's return on equity.
Lithia Motors received 105 more outperform votes than AutoNation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.13% of users gave Lithia Motors an outperform vote while only 56.31% of users gave AutoNation an outperform vote.
94.6% of AutoNation shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of AutoNation shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Lithia Motors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
AutoNation beats Lithia Motors on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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