CTAS vs. CPRT, IRM, VFC, KTB, UNF, MGRC, KAR, OXM, HCSG, and VVI
Should you be buying Cintas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cintas include Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), V.F. (VFC), Kontoor Brands (KTB), UniFirst (UNF), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), OPENLANE (KAR), Oxford Industries (OXM), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), and Viad (VVI).
Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) and Copart (NASDAQ:CPRT) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and valuation.
Cintas presently has a consensus price target of $664.07, suggesting a potential downside of 2.65%. Copart has a consensus price target of $51.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.13%. Given Cintas' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Cintas is more favorable than Copart.
Cintas received 151 more outperform votes than Copart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.80% of users gave Copart an outperform vote while only 60.02% of users gave Cintas an outperform vote.
63.5% of Cintas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Copart shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.1% of Cintas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Copart 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.
Cintas has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copart has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Copart had 2 more articles in the media than Cintas. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Copart and 7 mentions for Cintas. Copart's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Cintas' score of 0.34 indicating that Copart is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Copart has a net margin of 33.33% compared to Cintas' net margin of 15.98%. Cintas' return on equity of 37.19% beat Copart's return on equity.
Cintas has higher revenue and earnings than Copart. Copart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cintas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cintas beats Copart on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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