RUSHA vs. GPI, RUSHB, ABG, CWH, KAR, SAH, AN, LAD, CRMT, and MUSA
Should you be buying Rush Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rush Enterprises include Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Camping World (CWH), OPENLANE (KAR), Sonic Automotive (SAH), AutoNation (AN), Lithia Motors (LAD), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), and Murphy USA (MUSA). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ:RUSHA) and Group 1 Automotive (NYSE:GPI) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Group 1 Automotive had 2 more articles in the media than Rush Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Group 1 Automotive and 18 mentions for Rush Enterprises. Rush Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Group 1 Automotive's score of -0.03 indicating that Rush Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rush Enterprises currently has a consensus price target of $52.67, indicating a potential upside of 12.63%. Group 1 Automotive has a consensus price target of $331.67, indicating a potential upside of 10.43%. Given Rush Enterprises' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Rush Enterprises is more favorable than Group 1 Automotive.
Rush Enterprises has a net margin of 4.16% compared to Group 1 Automotive's net margin of 3.23%. Group 1 Automotive's return on equity of 22.82% beat Rush Enterprises' return on equity.
84.4% of Rush Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Group 1 Automotive shares are held by institutional investors. 17.1% of Rush Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Group 1 Automotive shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Group 1 Automotive received 127 more outperform votes than Rush Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.11% of users gave Group 1 Automotive an outperform vote while only 59.64% of users gave Rush Enterprises an outperform vote.
Group 1 Automotive has higher revenue and earnings than Rush Enterprises. Group 1 Automotive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rush Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rush Enterprises has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Group 1 Automotive has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rush Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Group 1 Automotive pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Rush Enterprises pays out 17.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Group 1 Automotive pays out 4.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Group 1 Automotive beats Rush Enterprises on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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