CVNA vs. CASY, KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, DLTR, QSR, DECK, EBAY, and BLDR
Should you be buying Carvana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carvana include Casey's General Stores (CASY), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Dollar Tree (DLTR), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Deckers Outdoor (DECK), eBay (EBAY), and Builders FirstSource (BLDR). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) and Carvana (NYSE:CVNA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.7% of Carvana shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Casey's General Stores shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of Carvana shares are held by 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.
Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carvana has a beta of 3.28, indicating that its share price is 228% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Carvana had 15 more articles in the media than Casey's General Stores. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Carvana and 10 mentions for Casey's General Stores. Casey's General Stores' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Carvana's score of 0.55 indicating that Carvana is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Casey's General Stores received 106 more outperform votes than Carvana when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.71% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote while only 58.14% of users gave Carvana an outperform vote.
Casey's General Stores presently has a consensus target price of $312.63, indicating a potential downside of 6.81%. Carvana has a consensus target price of $77.60, indicating a potential downside of 33.96%. Given Carvana's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Casey's General Stores is more favorable than Carvana.
Carvana has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Casey's General Stores. Casey's General Stores is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carvana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carvana has a net margin of 5.68% compared to Carvana's net margin of 3.23%. Carvana's return on equity of 16.70% beat Casey's General Stores' return on equity.
Summary
Casey's General Stores beats Carvana on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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