CARG vs. EVTC, ADNT, LCII, RAMP, GTX, QS, PSNY, DORM, DAN, and PHIN
Should you be buying CarGurus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CarGurus include EVERTEC (EVTC), Adient (ADNT), LCI Industries (LCII), LiveRamp (RAMP), Garrett Motion (GTX), QuantumScape (QS), Polestar Automotive Holding UK (PSNY), Dorman Products (DORM), Dana (DAN), and PHINIA (PHIN).
EVERTEC (NYSE:EVTC) and CarGurus (NASDAQ:CARG) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
96.8% of EVERTEC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of CarGurus shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of EVERTEC shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.7% of CarGurus 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.
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.
EVERTEC presently has a consensus target price of $41.33, suggesting a potential upside of 11.59%. CarGurus has a consensus target price of $25.18, suggesting a potential upside of 3.25%. Given CarGurus' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe EVERTEC is more favorable than CarGurus.
In the previous week, CarGurus had 16 more articles in the media than EVERTEC. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for CarGurus and 4 mentions for EVERTEC. CarGurus' average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat EVERTEC's score of 0.47 indicating that EVERTEC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
EVERTEC has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarGurus has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
EVERTEC has a net margin of 8.87% compared to EVERTEC's net margin of 3.40%. CarGurus' return on equity of 29.86% beat EVERTEC's return on equity.
CarGurus received 214 more outperform votes than EVERTEC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.63% of users gave CarGurus an outperform vote while only 59.49% of users gave EVERTEC an outperform vote.
Summary
EVERTEC and CarGurus tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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