AZO vs. ORLY, KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, GPI, ABG, AAP, SAH, 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), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Sonic Automotive (SAH), and Monro (MNRO). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
AutoZone vs.
AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) and O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
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.
AutoZone has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
92.7% of AutoZone shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of AutoZone shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AutoZone received 20 more outperform votes than O'Reilly Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.07% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote while only 66.97% of users gave O'Reilly Automotive an outperform vote.
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 17 more articles in the media than O'Reilly Automotive. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for AutoZone and 11 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive. AutoZone's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat O'Reilly Automotive's score of 0.65 indicating that AutoZone is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AutoZone currently has a consensus target price of $3,724.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.86%. O'Reilly Automotive has a consensus target price of $1,390.81, indicating a potential upside of 0.07%. Given AutoZone's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe AutoZone is more favorable than O'Reilly Automotive.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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