AZO vs. ORLY, KMX, PAG, LAD, AN, ABG, AAP, GPI, SAH, and MNRO
Should you be buying AutoZone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AutoZone include O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Sonic Automotive (SAH), and Monro (MNRO). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) and O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
AutoZone has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
92.7% of AutoZone shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of AutoZone shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AutoZone received 13 more outperform votes than O'Reilly Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.36% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote while only 66.52% of users gave O'Reilly Automotive an outperform vote.
AutoZone has higher revenue and earnings than O'Reilly Automotive. AutoZone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than O'Reilly Automotive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AutoZone presently has a consensus price target of $3,104.13, suggesting a potential upside of 12.06%. O'Reilly Automotive has a consensus price target of $1,123.64, suggesting a potential upside of 16.65%. Given O'Reilly Automotive's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe O'Reilly Automotive is more favorable than AutoZone.
O'Reilly Automotive has a net margin of 14.78% compared to AutoZone's net margin of 14.70%. AutoZone's return on equity of -56.06% beat O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity.
In the previous week, AutoZone had 9 more articles in the media than O'Reilly Automotive. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for AutoZone and 13 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive. O'Reilly Automotive's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat AutoZone's score of 0.36 indicating that O'Reilly Automotive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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