MGRC vs. AYR, UNF, TGH, KAR, RCII, CAI, TRTN, HCSG, VVI, and PFMT
Should you be buying McGrath RentCorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McGrath RentCorp include Aircastle (AYR), UniFirst (UNF), Textainer Group (TGH), OPENLANE (KAR), Rent-A-Center (RCII), CAI International (CAI), Triton International (TRTN), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Viad (VVI), and Performant Financial (PFMT).
Aircastle (NYSE:AYR) and McGrath RentCorp (NASDAQ:MGRC) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
Aircastle pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. McGrath RentCorp pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Aircastle pays out 62.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. McGrath RentCorp pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. McGrath RentCorp has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
McGrath RentCorp has a consensus target price of $116.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.54%. Given Aircastle's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe McGrath RentCorp is more favorable than Aircastle.
Aircastle has a net margin of 17.06% compared to Aircastle's net margin of 14.70%. Aircastle's return on equity of 13.43% beat McGrath RentCorp's return on equity.
Aircastle received 102 more outperform votes than McGrath RentCorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.34% of users gave McGrath RentCorp an outperform vote while only 58.74% of users gave Aircastle an outperform vote.
58.3% of Aircastle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of McGrath RentCorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Aircastle shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of McGrath RentCorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
McGrath RentCorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Aircastle. Aircastle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McGrath RentCorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, McGrath RentCorp had 7 more articles in the media than Aircastle. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for McGrath RentCorp and 0 mentions for Aircastle. Aircastle's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat McGrath RentCorp's score of 0.00 indicating that McGrath RentCorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aircastle has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McGrath RentCorp has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
McGrath RentCorp beats Aircastle on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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