AAP vs. PAG, LAD, AN, GPI, ABG, SAH, MNRO, CRMT, ORLY, and AZO
Should you be buying Advance Auto Parts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advance Auto Parts include Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Monro (MNRO), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), and AutoZone (AZO). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
Advance Auto Parts vs.
Penske Automotive Group (NYSE:PAG) and Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
Penske Automotive Group pays an annual dividend of $4.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Advance Auto Parts pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Penske Automotive Group pays out 36.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Advance Auto Parts pays out 137.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Penske Automotive Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Penske Automotive Group has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advance Auto Parts has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Penske Automotive Group has higher revenue and earnings than Advance Auto Parts. Penske Automotive Group 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.
In the previous week, Advance Auto Parts had 1 more articles in the media than Penske Automotive Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Advance Auto Parts and 7 mentions for Penske Automotive Group. Advance Auto Parts' average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Penske Automotive Group's score of 0.99 indicating that Advance Auto Parts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Advance Auto Parts received 559 more outperform votes than Penske Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.80% of users gave Advance Auto Parts an outperform vote while only 60.41% of users gave Penske Automotive Group an outperform vote.
Penske Automotive Group has a net margin of 2.91% compared to Advance Auto Parts' net margin of 0.41%. Penske Automotive Group's return on equity of 18.38% beat Advance Auto Parts' return on equity.
77.1% of Penske Automotive Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Advance Auto Parts shares are held by institutional investors. 52.2% of Penske Automotive Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Advance Auto Parts 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.
Penske Automotive Group presently has a consensus price target of $170.25, suggesting a potential upside of 0.89%. Advance Auto Parts has a consensus price target of $47.93, suggesting a potential downside of 3.16%. Given Penske Automotive Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Penske Automotive Group is more favorable than Advance Auto Parts.
Summary
Penske Automotive Group beats Advance Auto Parts on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:AAP) was last updated on 2/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
