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 business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
85.8% of Copart shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.7% of Carvana shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Copart shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.2% of Carvana shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Copart currently has a consensus price target of $51.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.83%. Carvana has a consensus price target of $84.36, suggesting a potential downside of 21.83%. Given Carvana's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Copart is more favorable than Carvana.
Carvana received 141 more outperform votes than Copart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.80% of users gave Copart an outperform vote while only 58.23% of users gave Carvana an outperform vote.
Copart has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carvana has a beta of 3.29, meaning that its stock price is 229% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
In the previous week, Carvana had 15 more articles in the media than Copart. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Carvana and 9 mentions for Copart. Carvana's average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Copart's score of 0.83 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 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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