MCW vs. DRVN, SDA, MNRO, EVGO, ALLG, LNW, TTC, HAS, ROKU, and PSO
Should you be buying Mister Car Wash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mister Car Wash include Driven Brands (DRVN), SunCar Technology Group (SDA), Monro (MNRO), EVgo (EVGO), Allego (ALLG), Light & Wonder (LNW), Toro (TTC), Hasbro (HAS), Roku (ROKU), and Pearson (PSO).
Driven Brands (NASDAQ:DRVN) and Mister Car Wash (NYSE:MCW) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Driven Brands has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mister Car Wash has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Driven Brands received 19 more outperform votes than Mister Car Wash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.00% of users gave Driven Brands an outperform vote while only 41.07% of users gave Mister Car Wash an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Driven Brands had 4 more articles in the media than Mister Car Wash. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Driven Brands and 4 mentions for Mister Car Wash. Driven Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Mister Car Wash's score of 0.56 indicating that Mister Car Wash is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mister Car Wash has a net margin of 8.04% compared to Mister Car Wash's net margin of -33.30%. Mister Car Wash's return on equity of 12.08% beat Driven Brands' return on equity.
77.1% of Driven Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Driven Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 70.0% of Mister Car Wash shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Driven Brands currently has a consensus price target of $17.61, suggesting a potential upside of 53.27%. Mister Car Wash has a consensus price target of $9.56, suggesting a potential upside of 36.02%. Given Mister Car Wash's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Driven Brands is more favorable than Mister Car Wash.
Mister Car Wash has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Driven Brands. Driven Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mister Car Wash, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Mister Car Wash beats Driven Brands on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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