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$226.59 -11.03 (-4.64%)
Closing price 03/27/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$226.16 -0.43 (-0.19%)
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ABG vs. KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, GPI, AAP, SAH, MNRO, CRMT, and ORLY

Should you be buying Asbury Automotive Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asbury Automotive Group include CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Monro (MNRO), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), and O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.

Asbury Automotive Group vs.

Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE:ABG) and CarMax (NYSE:KMX) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

CarMax received 379 more outperform votes than Asbury Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.17% of users gave CarMax an outperform vote while only 52.41% of users gave Asbury Automotive Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Asbury Automotive GroupOutperform Votes
326
52.41%
Underperform Votes
296
47.59%
CarMaxOutperform Votes
705
63.17%
Underperform Votes
411
36.83%

Asbury Automotive Group has a net margin of 2.50% compared to CarMax's net margin of 1.77%. Asbury Automotive Group's return on equity of 16.29% beat CarMax's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Asbury Automotive Group2.50% 16.29% 5.34%
CarMax 1.77%7.49%1.69%

Asbury Automotive Group currently has a consensus target price of $263.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.07%. CarMax has a consensus target price of $90.18, indicating a potential upside of 16.94%. Given CarMax's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CarMax is more favorable than Asbury Automotive Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Asbury Automotive Group
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.17
CarMax
2 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.46

In the previous week, CarMax had 24 more articles in the media than Asbury Automotive Group. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for CarMax and 6 mentions for Asbury Automotive Group. CarMax's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Asbury Automotive Group's score of 0.71 indicating that CarMax is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Asbury Automotive Group
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
CarMax
12 Very Positive mention(s)
8 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Asbury Automotive Group has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarMax has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.

CarMax has higher revenue and earnings than Asbury Automotive Group. Asbury Automotive Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CarMax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Asbury Automotive Group$17.19B0.26$430.30M$21.5110.53
CarMax$25.98B0.46$479.20M$2.9526.14

Summary

CarMax beats Asbury Automotive Group on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ABG vs. The Competition

MetricAsbury Automotive GroupAutomotive dealers & gasoline service stations IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.45B$7.64B$24.73B$19.62B
Dividend YieldN/A1.45%171.17%3.75%
P/E Ratio10.5319.5023.8033.60
Price / Sales0.263.273.9327.47
Price / Cash8.7319.0319.4917.54
Price / Book1.444.035.654.60
Net Income$430.30M$310.64M$784.47M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-2.94%0.52%1.50%0.37%
1 Month Performance-15.48%-3.55%-3.22%-2.45%
1 Year Performance-3.98%-7.79%-2.51%5.03%

Asbury Automotive Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ABG
Asbury Automotive Group
2.3078 of 5 stars
$226.59
-4.6%
$263.00
+16.1%
-3.1%$4.45B$17.19B10.5315,000Analyst Forecast
KMX
CarMax
2.7476 of 5 stars
$73.51
+3.1%
$90.45
+23.1%
-11.3%$11.31B$25.98B24.9232,600Analyst Upgrade
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PAG
Penske Automotive Group
3.8625 of 5 stars
$154.31
+3.3%
$172.50
+11.8%
-10.8%$10.30B$30.46B11.2244,000Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
LAD
Lithia Motors
4.1502 of 5 stars
$320.45
+4.6%
$371.36
+15.9%
-2.6%$8.42B$36.19B10.8021,900Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
AN
AutoNation
3.457 of 5 stars
$175.58
+5.3%
$204.71
+16.6%
-2.5%$6.89B$26.77B10.3623,600Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
GPI
Group 1 Automotive
4.0153 of 5 stars
$418.27
+4.5%
$460.33
+10.1%
+35.7%$5.54B$19.93B11.3816,011Analyst Forecast
Positive News
AAP
Advance Auto Parts
4.2719 of 5 stars
$38.68
+3.2%
$45.13
+16.7%
-52.7%$2.31B$9.09B52.9867,000Options Volume
Positive News
SAH
Sonic Automotive
4.5673 of 5 stars
$63.13
+3.7%
$77.80
+23.2%
+1.6%$2.13B$14.22B10.2110,500Analyst Forecast
MNRO
Monro
2.5516 of 5 stars
$16.69
-3.0%
$25.33
+51.8%
-47.6%$499.85M$1.21B26.088,750
CRMT
America's Car-Mart
1.7459 of 5 stars
$49.76
+4.6%
$50.00
+0.5%
-24.7%$411.12M$1.39B-60.682,100Positive News
ORLY
O'Reilly Automotive
3.8089 of 5 stars
$1,362.74
+1.8%
$1,390.81
+2.1%
+25.4%$78.00B$16.71B33.5287,700Short Interest ↓
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