Monro (MNRO) Competitors

Monro (NASDAQ:MNRO) and Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of MNRO or AAP?

88.8% of Advance Auto Parts shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Monro shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Advance Auto Parts shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer MNRO or AAP?

Monro presently has a consensus price target of $31.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.12%. Advance Auto Parts has a consensus price target of $55.92, suggesting a potential upside of 54.27%. Given Advance Auto Parts' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Advance Auto Parts is more favorable than Monro.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Monro	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Advance Auto Parts	1 Sell rating(s)	13 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer MNRO or AAP?

Advance Auto Parts received 592 more outperform votes than Monro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.21% of users gave Advance Auto Parts an outperform vote while only 57.95% of users gave Monro an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Monro	Outperform Votes 317 57.95%	Underperform Votes 230 42.05%
Advance Auto Parts	Outperform Votes 909 63.21%	Underperform Votes 529 36.79%

Is MNRO or AAP a better dividend stock?

Monro pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Advance Auto Parts pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Monro pays out 128.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Advance Auto Parts pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Monro has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years. Monro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has better earnings & valuation, MNRO or AAP?

Monro has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Advance Auto Parts. Monro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advance Auto Parts, 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
Monro	$1.28B	0.65	$37.57M	$0.87	31.78
Advance Auto Parts	$11.29B	0.19	$29.74M	$0.01	3,625.00

Does the media prefer MNRO or AAP?

In the previous week, Monro had 51 more articles in the media than Advance Auto Parts. MarketBeat recorded 56 mentions for Monro and 5 mentions for Advance Auto Parts. Advance Auto Parts' average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Monro's score of -0.06 indicating that Advance Auto Parts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Monro	5 Very Positive mention(s)	10 Positive mention(s)	33 Neutral mention(s)	4 Negative mention(s)	3 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Advance Auto Parts	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Is MNRO or AAP more profitable?

Monro has a net margin of 2.24% compared to Advance Auto Parts' net margin of 0.01%. Monro's return on equity of 4.76% beat Advance Auto Parts' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Monro	2.24%	4.76%	1.83%
Advance Auto Parts	0.01%	0.05%	0.01%

Which has more risk & volatility, MNRO or AAP?

Monro has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advance Auto Parts has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Monro beats Advance Auto Parts on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.