CPRT vs. NU, SPOT, PLTR, RSG, PAYX, SQ, FIS, MRVL, VRSK, and IT
Should you be buying Copart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Copart include NU (NU), Spotify Technology (SPOT), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Republic Services (RSG), Paychex (PAYX), Block (SQ), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Marvell Technology (MRVL), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), and Gartner (IT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
NU (NYSE:NU) and Copart (NASDAQ:CPRT) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Copart received 353 more outperform votes than NU when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.80% of users gave Copart an outperform vote while only 53.06% of users gave NU an outperform vote.
Copart has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NU. Copart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NU, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NU has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copart has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NU presently has a consensus price target of $10.74, suggesting a potential downside of 11.92%. Copart has a consensus price target of $51.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.28%. Given NU's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Copart is more favorable than NU.
Copart has a net margin of 33.33% compared to Copart's net margin of 13.86%. Copart's return on equity of 22.94% beat NU's return on equity.
In the previous week, Copart had 1 more articles in the media than NU. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Copart and 19 mentions for NU. NU's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Copart's score of 0.27 indicating that Copart is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
80.9% of NU shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Copart shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Copart shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Copart beats NU on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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