AZO vs. ORLY, KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, GPI, ABG, SAH, AAP, and MNRO
Should you be buying AutoZone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AutoZone include O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), and Monro (MNRO). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
AutoZone vs.
O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) and AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment and earnings.
O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AutoZone has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AutoZone has higher revenue and earnings than O'Reilly Automotive. AutoZone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than O'Reilly Automotive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AutoZone had 91 more articles in the media than O'Reilly Automotive. MarketBeat recorded 129 mentions for AutoZone and 38 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat AutoZone's score of 0.59 indicating that O'Reilly Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
O'Reilly Automotive presently has a consensus price target of $1,390.81, indicating a potential upside of 5.44%. AutoZone has a consensus price target of $3,646.62, indicating a potential upside of 0.73%. Given O'Reilly Automotive's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe O'Reilly Automotive is more favorable than AutoZone.
85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of AutoZone shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of AutoZone shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AutoZone received 20 more outperform votes than O'Reilly Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.13% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote while only 66.97% of users gave O'Reilly Automotive an outperform vote.
O'Reilly Automotive has a net margin of 14.28% compared to AutoZone's net margin of 14.18%. AutoZone's return on equity of -53.89% beat O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:AZO) was last updated on 3/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
