ATHM vs. RTO, CART, ALLE, MEDP, ULS, WPP, GLOB, HQY, STN, and BILI
Should you be buying Autohome stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Autohome include Rentokil Initial (RTO), Maplebear (CART), Allegion (ALLE), Medpace (MEDP), UL Solutions (ULS), WPP (WPP), Globant (GLOB), HealthEquity (HQY), Stantec (STN), and Bilibili (BILI). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Autohome vs.
Autohome (NYSE:ATHM) and Rentokil Initial (NYSE:RTO) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and risk.
Autohome has a beta of 0.18, suggesting that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rentokil Initial has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Autohome presently has a consensus target price of $28.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.50%. Rentokil Initial has a consensus target price of $29.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.77%. Given Rentokil Initial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Rentokil Initial is more favorable than Autohome.
Autohome pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Rentokil Initial pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Autohome pays out 83.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
63.1% of Autohome shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.9% of Rentokil Initial shares are held by institutional investors. 5.7% of Autohome shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Rentokil Initial has higher revenue and earnings than Autohome.
Autohome received 352 more outperform votes than Rentokil Initial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.03% of users gave Autohome an outperform vote while only 30.77% of users gave Rentokil Initial an outperform vote.
Autohome has a net margin of 24.36% compared to Rentokil Initial's net margin of 0.00%. Autohome's return on equity of 7.79% beat Rentokil Initial's return on equity.
In the previous week, Rentokil Initial had 24 more articles in the media than Autohome. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Rentokil Initial and 2 mentions for Autohome. Autohome's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Rentokil Initial's score of 0.07 indicating that Autohome is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Autohome beats Rentokil Initial on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ATHM) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff