KAR vs. UNF, MGRC, HCSG, VVI, PFMT, CTAS, CPRT, IRM, LAD, and AN
Should you be buying OPENLANE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OPENLANE include UniFirst (UNF), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Viad (VVI), Performant Financial (PFMT), Cintas (CTAS), Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), Lithia Motors (LAD), and AutoNation (AN).
UniFirst (NYSE:UNF) and OPENLANE (NYSE:KAR) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
OPENLANE received 407 more outperform votes than UniFirst when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.08% of users gave OPENLANE an outperform vote while only 53.21% of users gave UniFirst an outperform vote.
UniFirst currently has a consensus target price of $177.75, indicating a potential upside of 12.07%. OPENLANE has a consensus target price of $19.60, indicating a potential upside of 13.62%. Given UniFirst's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe OPENLANE is more favorable than UniFirst.
UniFirst has a net margin of 4.92% compared to UniFirst's net margin of -9.04%. UniFirst's return on equity of 8.53% beat OPENLANE's return on equity.
UniFirst has higher revenue and earnings than OPENLANE. OPENLANE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UniFirst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, UniFirst and UniFirst both had 1 articles in the media. OPENLANE's average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat UniFirst's score of 1.34 indicating that UniFirst is being referred to more favorably in the media.
UniFirst has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OPENLANE has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.2% of UniFirst shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of OPENLANE shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of UniFirst shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of OPENLANE shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
OPENLANE beats UniFirst on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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