CARG vs. EVTC, RAMP, UPWK, SSTK, YEXT, RDDT, GLOB, BILI, MARA, and PEGA
Should you be buying CarGurus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CarGurus include EVERTEC (EVTC), LiveRamp (RAMP), Upwork (UPWK), Shutterstock (SSTK), Yext (YEXT), Reddit (RDDT), Globant (GLOB), Bilibili (BILI), Marathon Digital (MARA), and Pegasystems (PEGA). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
EVERTEC (NYSE:EVTC) and CarGurus (NASDAQ:CARG) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
96.8% of EVERTEC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of CarGurus shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of EVERTEC shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.2% of CarGurus shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
EVERTEC has a net margin of 8.87% compared to EVERTEC's net margin of 4.04%. CarGurus' return on equity of 29.86% beat EVERTEC's return on equity.
EVERTEC presently has a consensus price target of $41.33, suggesting a potential upside of 18.20%. CarGurus has a consensus price target of $25.77, suggesting a potential upside of 6.45%. Given CarGurus' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe EVERTEC is more favorable than CarGurus.
EVERTEC has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CarGurus. EVERTEC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CarGurus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CarGurus had 7 more articles in the media than EVERTEC. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for CarGurus and 1 mentions for EVERTEC. CarGurus' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat EVERTEC's score of 0.71 indicating that EVERTEC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CarGurus received 215 more outperform votes than EVERTEC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.59% of users gave CarGurus an outperform vote while only 59.49% of users gave EVERTEC an outperform vote.
EVERTEC has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarGurus has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
EVERTEC and CarGurus tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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