MNRO vs. SAH, CRMT, ORLY, AZO, KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, ABG, and GPI
Should you be buying Monro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Monro include Sonic Automotive (SAH), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), AutoZone (AZO), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), and Group 1 Automotive (GPI). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
Sonic Automotive (NYSE:SAH) and Monro (NASDAQ:MNRO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
Sonic Automotive pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Monro pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Sonic Automotive pays out 24.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Monro pays out 94.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sonic Automotive has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Monro has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years. Monro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Monro had 33 more articles in the media than Sonic Automotive. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Monro and 3 mentions for Sonic Automotive. Monro's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Sonic Automotive's score of -0.14 indicating that Sonic Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sonic Automotive has a beta of 1.75, meaning that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monro has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sonic Automotive has higher revenue and earnings than Monro. Sonic Automotive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
46.9% of Sonic Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.0% of Sonic Automotive shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Monro shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Monro has a net margin of 2.94% compared to Monro's net margin of 1.21%. Monro's return on equity of 27.46% beat Sonic Automotive's return on equity.
Sonic Automotive currently has a consensus target price of $56.60, indicating a potential downside of 0.12%. Monro has a consensus target price of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 47.99%. Given Sonic Automotive's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Monro is more favorable than Sonic Automotive.
Monro received 74 more outperform votes than Sonic Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.06% of users gave Monro an outperform vote while only 51.81% of users gave Sonic Automotive an outperform vote.
Summary
Sonic Automotive beats Monro on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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