CVNA vs. CPRT, CASY, KMX, PAG, MUSA, LAD, AN, ABG, GPI, and RUSHA
Should you be buying Carvana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carvana include Copart (CPRT), Casey's General Stores (CASY), CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Murphy USA (MUSA), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), and Rush Enterprises (RUSHA). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
Copart (NASDAQ:CPRT) and Carvana (NYSE:CVNA) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Copart has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carvana has a beta of 3.28, meaning that its share price is 228% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Copart presently has a consensus target price of $51.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.88%. Carvana has a consensus target price of $77.60, indicating a potential downside of 22.32%. Given Carvana's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Copart is more favorable than Carvana.
Copart has a net margin of 33.33% compared to Copart's net margin of 5.68%. Carvana's return on equity of 20.80% beat Copart's return on equity.
Carvana received 139 more outperform votes than Copart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.80% of users gave Copart an outperform vote while only 58.14% of users gave Carvana an outperform vote.
85.8% of Copart shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.7% of Carvana shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Copart shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of Carvana shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Copart had 1 more articles in the media than Carvana. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Copart and 16 mentions for Carvana. Carvana's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Copart's score of 0.01 indicating that Copart is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Copart has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carvana. Copart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carvana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Copart beats Carvana on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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