ABG vs. GPI, AN, LAD, SAH, KAR, CWH, MUSA, CRMT, VRM, and PAG
Should you be buying Asbury Automotive Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asbury Automotive Group include Group 1 Automotive (GPI), AutoNation (AN), Lithia Motors (LAD), Sonic Automotive (SAH), OPENLANE (KAR), Camping World (CWH), Murphy USA (MUSA), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Vroom (VRM), and Penske Automotive Group (PAG). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
Group 1 Automotive (NYSE:GPI) and Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE:ABG) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
99.9% of Group 1 Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Group 1 Automotive shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Asbury Automotive Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Group 1 Automotive presently has a consensus target price of $330.83, suggesting a potential upside of 5.09%. Asbury Automotive Group has a consensus target price of $231.25, suggesting a potential downside of 4.10%. Given Asbury Automotive Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Group 1 Automotive is more favorable than Asbury Automotive Group.
Group 1 Automotive received 132 more outperform votes than Asbury Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.16% of users gave Group 1 Automotive an outperform vote while only 53.64% of users gave Asbury Automotive Group an outperform vote.
Group 1 Automotive has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Asbury Automotive Group has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Asbury Automotive Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Group 1 Automotive. Group 1 Automotive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Asbury Automotive Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Group 1 Automotive had 21 more articles in the media than Asbury Automotive Group. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Group 1 Automotive and 9 mentions for Asbury Automotive Group. Asbury Automotive Group's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Group 1 Automotive's score of 0.49 indicating that Group 1 Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Asbury Automotive Group has a net margin of 3.68% compared to Asbury Automotive Group's net margin of 3.23%. Asbury Automotive Group's return on equity of 22.45% beat Group 1 Automotive's return on equity.
Summary
Group 1 Automotive beats Asbury Automotive Group on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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