AUTO vs. RMV, BCG, MONY, GOCO, TIG, CNIC, RTHM, OTMP, ULS, and BOOM
Should you be buying Auto Trader Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Auto Trader Group include Rightmove (RMV), Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG), Moneysupermarket.com Group (MONY), GoCo Group plc (GOCO.L) (GOCO), Team Internet Group (TIG), CentralNic Group (CNIC), Rhythmone (RTHM), OnTheMarket (OTMP), ULS Technology (ULS), and Audioboom Group (BOOM). These companies are all part of the "internet content & information" industry.
Rightmove (LON:RMV) and Auto Trader Group (LON:AUTO) are both mid-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Rightmove received 19 more outperform votes than Auto Trader Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.53% of users gave Auto Trader Group an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave Rightmove an outperform vote.
Rightmove currently has a consensus target price of GBX 602.67, suggesting a potential upside of 11.40%. Auto Trader Group has a consensus target price of GBX 637.50, suggesting a potential downside of 22.73%. Given Auto Trader Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Rightmove is more favorable than Auto Trader Group.
Auto Trader Group has higher revenue and earnings than Rightmove. Rightmove is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Auto Trader Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rightmove pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Auto Trader Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Rightmove pays out 3,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Auto Trader Group pays out 3,600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
88.7% of Rightmove shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of Auto Trader Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Rightmove shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Auto Trader Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Rightmove has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Auto Trader Group has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rightmove has a net margin of 54.66% compared to Rightmove's net margin of 44.36%. Auto Trader Group's return on equity of 289.63% beat Rightmove's return on equity.
In the previous week, Auto Trader Group had 7 more articles in the media than Rightmove. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Auto Trader Group and 3 mentions for Rightmove. Rightmove's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Auto Trader Group's score of 0.25 indicating that Auto Trader Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Rightmove and Auto Trader Group tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding AUTO 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 LON 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.
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