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Asbury Automotive Group (ABG) Competitors

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$245.77 +1.91 (+0.78%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:15 PM ET)

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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

In the previous week, CarMax had 63 more articles in the media than Asbury Automotive Group. MarketBeat recorded 66 mentions for CarMax and 3 mentions for Asbury Automotive Group. Asbury Automotive Group's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat CarMax's score of 0.75 indicating that Asbury Automotive Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Asbury Automotive Group currently has a consensus price target of $256.20, suggesting a potential upside of 4.24%. CarMax has a consensus price target of $85.17, suggesting a potential upside of 1.06%. Given Asbury Automotive Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Asbury Automotive Group is more favorable than CarMax.

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

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 52.67% of users gave Asbury Automotive Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Asbury Automotive GroupOutperform Votes
325
52.67%
Underperform Votes
292
47.33%
CarMaxOutperform Votes
701
63.10%
Underperform Votes
410
36.90%

Asbury Automotive Group has a net margin of 2.16% compared to CarMax's net margin of 1.61%. 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 1.61%6.83%1.53%

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$16.50B0.29$602.50M$17.6713.91
CarMax$25.90B0.50$479.20M$2.6631.68

Asbury Automotive Group has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarMax has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

CarMax beats Asbury Automotive Group on 9 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$4.81B$8.41B$24.44B$19.18B
Dividend YieldN/A1.31%167.09%3.60%
P/E Ratio13.911,264.89108.5841.26
Price / Sales0.291.053.1217.60
Price / Cash6.6935.1121.7821.28
Price / Book1.562.805.425.32
Net Income$602.50M$337.88M$676.04M$989.88M
7 Day Performance-3.13%-2.83%-2.92%-3.54%
1 Month Performance-4.80%1.52%0.51%-3.68%
1 Year Performance8.69%10.18%9.02%12.14%

Asbury Automotive Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ABG
Asbury Automotive Group
2.2806 of 5 stars
$245.77
+0.8%
$256.20
+4.2%
+10.8%$4.81B$16.50B13.9115,000Positive News
High Trading Volume
KMX
CarMax
3.4806 of 5 stars
$85.60
-0.8%
$81.00
-5.4%
+12.8%$13.26B$25.90B32.4329,836Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
PAG
Penske Automotive Group
3.4179 of 5 stars
$163.46
+0.1%
$170.25
+4.2%
-1.2%$10.91B$30.01B12.5144,000
LAD
Lithia Motors
4.2219 of 5 stars
$379.58
-0.3%
$357.60
-5.8%
+16.5%$10.11B$34.69B12.9927,446Positive News
AN
AutoNation
3.6097 of 5 stars
$171.78
-0.5%
$199.29
+16.0%
+15.1%$6.81B$26.95B9.9625,300Positive News
GPI
Group 1 Automotive
3.2806 of 5 stars
$426.21
-0.2%
$437.67
+2.7%
+42.3%$5.68B$17.87B11.3816,011Insider Trade
Positive News
AAP
Advance Auto Parts
4.4896 of 5 stars
$44.05
+0.4%
$48.40
+9.9%
-26.8%$2.63B$11.19B60.0869,000
SAH
Sonic Automotive
2.9727 of 5 stars
$67.11
+0.9%
$67.40
+0.4%
+15.2%$2.29B$14.37B11.8410,500
MNRO
Monro
3.0842 of 5 stars
$26.21
+1.0%
$31.00
+18.3%
-19.3%$784.96M$1.22B29.837,660Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
CRMT
America's Car-Mart
2.1242 of 5 stars
$55.43
+0.2%
$50.00
-9.8%
-27.4%$457.46M$1.36B-67.562,280Positive News
ORLY
O'Reilly Automotive
4.3452 of 5 stars
$1,275.88
+0.4%
$1,257.00
-1.5%
+28.3%$73.66B$15.81B31.4390,302

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