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Asbury Automotive Group (ABG) Competitors

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$244.72 -0.64 (-0.26%)
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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 superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.

Asbury Automotive Group has a net margin of 2.16% compared to CarMax's net margin of 1.77%. Asbury Automotive Group's return on equity of 16.51% beat CarMax's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Asbury Automotive Group2.16% 16.51% 5.38%
CarMax 1.77%7.49%1.69%

Asbury Automotive Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CarMax. 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$14.80B0.32$602.50M$17.6713.85
CarMax$26.54B0.46$479.20M$2.9526.77

In the previous week, CarMax had 10 more articles in the media than Asbury Automotive Group. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for CarMax and 14 mentions for Asbury Automotive Group. CarMax's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Asbury Automotive Group's score of 0.29 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
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
CarMax
11 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

CarMax received 376 more outperform votes than Asbury Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.10% of users gave CarMax an outperform vote while only 52.59% of users gave Asbury Automotive Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Asbury Automotive GroupOutperform Votes
325
52.59%
Underperform Votes
293
47.41%
CarMaxOutperform Votes
701
63.10%
Underperform Votes
410
36.90%

Asbury Automotive Group currently has a consensus target price of $255.20, indicating a potential upside of 4.28%. CarMax has a consensus target price of $85.17, indicating a potential upside of 7.86%. Given CarMax's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly 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
3 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.21

Asbury Automotive Group has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarMax has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

CarMax beats Asbury Automotive Group on 11 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$4.79B$9.08B$24.73B$19.57B
Dividend YieldN/A1.37%167.14%3.71%
P/E Ratio13.851,168.8492.7135.01
Price / Sales0.321.203.7317.11
Price / Cash6.2228.6720.3619.84
Price / Book1.552.976.705.76
Net Income$602.50M$371.37M$675.95M$993.25M
7 Day Performance1.09%2.92%2.01%3.12%
1 Month Performance-0.43%0.99%0.20%4.75%
1 Year Performance19.69%22.77%13.47%18.83%

Asbury Automotive Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ABG
Asbury Automotive Group
1.8731 of 5 stars
$244.72
-0.3%
$255.20
+4.3%
+19.7%$4.79B$14.80B13.8515,000Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
KMX
CarMax
3.8138 of 5 stars
$78.13
-0.3%
$85.17
+9.0%
+14.2%$12.02B$25.98B29.3729,836Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
PAG
Penske Automotive Group
3.5984 of 5 stars
$153.13
+1.2%
$170.25
+11.2%
+5.7%$10.22B$30.01B11.7344,000Analyst Revision
News Coverage
LAD
Lithia Motors
4.4741 of 5 stars
$348.70
+2.0%
$361.45
+3.7%
+18.4%$9.29B$34.69B11.9021,900Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
AN
AutoNation
1.7986 of 5 stars
$174.60
+2.2%
$199.29
+14.1%
+32.0%$6.92B$26.32B10.0725,300Analyst Revision
News Coverage
GPI
Group 1 Automotive
3.2192 of 5 stars
$428.00
+1.7%
$437.67
+2.3%
+63.4%$5.70B$18.87B11.4016,011Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
AAP
Advance Auto Parts
3.8848 of 5 stars
$45.17
-2.2%
$47.93
+6.1%
-28.0%$2.70B$11.19B61.8869,000Analyst Revision
SAH
Sonic Automotive
3.6726 of 5 stars
$64.01
+1.0%
$67.40
+5.3%
+34.5%$2.19B$13.91B11.3910,500Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
MNRO
Monro
3.4917 of 5 stars
$21.86
-0.5%
$29.33
+34.2%
-26.3%$654.69M$1.22B25.138,750
CRMT
America's Car-Mart
1.553 of 5 stars
$44.12
-1.2%
$50.00
+13.3%
-26.5%$364.12M$1.36B-53.802,100Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
ORLY
O'Reilly Automotive
4.2414 of 5 stars
$1,212.39
+1.2%
$1,270.69
+4.8%
+18.4%$69.99B$16.44B29.9987,700News Coverage

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