RUSHA vs. RUSHB, GPI, ABG, SAH, KAR, CWH, CRMT, AN, LAD, and MUSA
Should you be buying Rush Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rush Enterprises include Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Sonic Automotive (SAH), OPENLANE (KAR), Camping World (CWH), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), AutoNation (AN), Lithia Motors (LAD), and Murphy USA (MUSA). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ:RUSHB) and Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ:RUSHA) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Rush Enterprises has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rush Enterprises has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rush Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Rush Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Rush Enterprises pays out 17.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Rush Enterprises pays out 17.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Rush Enterprises has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Rush Enterprises has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Rush Enterprises has a consensus target price of $52.67, suggesting a potential upside of 14.59%. Given Rush Enterprises' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Rush Enterprises is more favorable than Rush Enterprises.
In the previous week, Rush Enterprises had 3 more articles in the media than Rush Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Rush Enterprises and 2 mentions for Rush Enterprises. Rush Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Rush Enterprises' score of 1.65 indicating that Rush Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rush Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rush Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rush Enterprises received 218 more outperform votes than Rush Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.87% of users gave Rush Enterprises an outperform vote while only 59.64% of users gave Rush Enterprises an outperform vote.
18.1% of Rush Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.4% of Rush Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.9% of Rush Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Rush Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Rush Enterprises beats Rush Enterprises on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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