GPI vs. KMX, PAG, AN, LAD, ABG, AAP, SAH, MNRO, CRMT, and ORLY
Should you be buying Group 1 Automotive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Group 1 Automotive include CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), AutoNation (AN), Lithia Motors (LAD), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Monro (MNRO), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), and O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY). These companies are all part of the "automotive retail" industry.
Group 1 Automotive (NYSE:GPI) and CarMax (NYSE:KMX) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and dividends.
Group 1 Automotive has a net margin of 3.23% compared to CarMax's net margin of 1.81%. Group 1 Automotive's return on equity of 22.45% beat CarMax's return on equity.
Group 1 Automotive currently has a consensus target price of $330.83, indicating a potential upside of 6.38%. CarMax has a consensus target price of $77.42, indicating a potential upside of 10.19%. Given CarMax's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CarMax is more favorable than Group 1 Automotive.
Group 1 Automotive has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarMax has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CarMax received 229 more outperform votes than Group 1 Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.90% of users gave CarMax an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Group 1 Automotive an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CarMax had 1 more articles in the media than Group 1 Automotive. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for CarMax and 3 mentions for Group 1 Automotive. CarMax's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Group 1 Automotive's score of 0.58 indicating that CarMax is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
99.9% of Group 1 Automotive shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Group 1 Automotive shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of CarMax shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Group 1 Automotive has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CarMax. Group 1 Automotive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CarMax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CarMax beats Group 1 Automotive on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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