LAD vs. KMX, PAG, AN, ABG, GPI, AAP, SAH, MNRO, CRMT, and ORLY
Should you be buying Lithia Motors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lithia Motors include CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Monro (MNRO), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), and O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) and CarMax (NYSE:KMX) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
CarMax received 205 more outperform votes than Lithia Motors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.13% of users gave Lithia Motors an outperform vote while only 63.84% of users gave CarMax an outperform vote.
Lithia Motors has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarMax has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lithia Motors has a net margin of 2.87% compared to CarMax's net margin of 1.81%. Lithia Motors' return on equity of 15.62% beat CarMax's return on equity.
In the previous week, CarMax had 14 more articles in the media than Lithia Motors. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for CarMax and 5 mentions for Lithia Motors. Lithia Motors' average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat CarMax's score of 0.63 indicating that Lithia Motors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lithia Motors currently has a consensus price target of $318.55, suggesting a potential upside of 23.42%. CarMax has a consensus price target of $76.92, suggesting a potential upside of 11.20%. Given Lithia Motors' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Lithia Motors is more favorable than CarMax.
Lithia Motors has higher revenue and earnings than CarMax. Lithia Motors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CarMax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lithia Motors beats CarMax on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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