ACV Auctions (ACVA) Competitors

ACV Auctions (NASDAQ:ACVA) and OPENLANE (NYSE:KAR) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in ACVA or KAR?

88.6% of ACV Auctions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of OPENLANE shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of ACV Auctions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of OPENLANE shares are owned by 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.

Do analysts rate ACVA or KAR?

ACV Auctions currently has a consensus price target of $22.63, suggesting a potential upside of 2.98%. OPENLANE has a consensus price target of $20.20, suggesting a potential upside of 1.28%. Given ACV Auctions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe ACV Auctions is more favorable than OPENLANE.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ACV Auctions	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75
OPENLANE	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Which has better valuation & earnings, ACVA or KAR?

ACV Auctions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than OPENLANE. ACV Auctions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OPENLANE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ACV Auctions	$481.23M	7.65	-$75.26M	-$0.47	-46.74
OPENLANE	$1.65B	1.30	-$154.10M	$0.26	76.71

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ACVA or KAR?

OPENLANE received 582 more outperform votes than ACV Auctions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.24% of users gave OPENLANE an outperform vote while only 54.39% of users gave ACV Auctions an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
ACV Auctions	Outperform Votes 62 54.39%	Underperform Votes 52 45.61%
OPENLANE	Outperform Votes 644 71.24%	Underperform Votes 260 28.76%

Does the media refer more to ACVA or KAR?

In the previous week, OPENLANE had 3 more articles in the media than ACV Auctions. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for OPENLANE and 7 mentions for ACV Auctions. OPENLANE's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat ACV Auctions' score of 0.82 indicating that OPENLANE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
ACV Auctions	4 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
OPENLANE	3 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is ACVA or KAR more profitable?

OPENLANE has a net margin of 4.26% compared to ACV Auctions' net margin of -12.89%. OPENLANE's return on equity of 8.67% beat ACV Auctions' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ACV Auctions	-12.89%	-12.11%	-5.52%
OPENLANE	4.26%	8.67%	2.45%

Which has more volatility and risk, ACVA or KAR?

ACV Auctions has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OPENLANE has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

OPENLANE beats ACV Auctions on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.