ORLY vs. AZO, MELI, TGT, CMG, ROST, JD, CVS, CPNG, KR, and YUM
Should you be buying O'Reilly Automotive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of O'Reilly Automotive include AutoZone (AZO), MercadoLibre (MELI), Target (TGT), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Ross Stores (ROST), JD.com (JD), CVS Health (CVS), Coupang (CPNG), Kroger (KR), and Yum! Brands (YUM). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) and AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
O'Reilly Automotive has a net margin of 14.78% compared to AutoZone's net margin of 14.70%. AutoZone's return on equity of -56.06% beat O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity.
AutoZone has higher revenue and earnings than O'Reilly Automotive. AutoZone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than O'Reilly Automotive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
O'Reilly Automotive has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AutoZone has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
85.0% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of AutoZone shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of O'Reilly Automotive shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of AutoZone shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AutoZone received 3 more outperform votes than O'Reilly Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.04% of users gave AutoZone an outperform vote while only 66.55% of users gave O'Reilly Automotive an outperform vote.
O'Reilly Automotive currently has a consensus target price of $1,106.31, suggesting a potential upside of 5.98%. AutoZone has a consensus target price of $3,086.61, suggesting a potential upside of 4.77%. Given O'Reilly Automotive's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe O'Reilly Automotive is more favorable than AutoZone.
In the previous week, O'Reilly Automotive had 36 more articles in the media than AutoZone. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for O'Reilly Automotive and 10 mentions for AutoZone. AutoZone's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat O'Reilly Automotive's score of 0.34 indicating that AutoZone is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AutoZone beats O'Reilly Automotive on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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