HTZ vs. GHC, LAUR, DRVN, MCW, AFYA, PRDO, UDMY, IRS, DAO, and GOTU
Should you be buying Hertz Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hertz Global include Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Udemy (UDMY), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), Youdao (DAO), and Gaotu Techedu (GOTU). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Hertz Global vs.
Graham (NYSE:GHC) and Hertz Global (NYSE:HTZ) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and valuation.
In the previous week, Graham had 6 more articles in the media than Hertz Global. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Graham and 3 mentions for Hertz Global. Graham's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Hertz Global's score of 0.30 indicating that Graham is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Graham received 140 more outperform votes than Hertz Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.50% of users gave Graham an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Hertz Global an outperform vote.
Graham has a net margin of 4.86% compared to Hertz Global's net margin of 0.00%. Graham's return on equity of 5.79% beat Hertz Global's return on equity.
Graham has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hertz Global has a beta of 2.37, suggesting that its share price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Graham has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hertz Global. Hertz Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graham, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.2% of Graham shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.2% of Hertz Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.5% of Graham shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Hertz Global shares are owned 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.
Summary
Graham beats Hertz Global on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:HTZ) was last updated on 4/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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