ABG vs. GPI, AN, CWH, KAR, SAH, LAD, CRMT, MUSA, VRM, and PAG
Should you be buying Asbury Automotive Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asbury Automotive Group include Group 1 Automotive (GPI), AutoNation (AN), Camping World (CWH), OPENLANE (KAR), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Lithia Motors (LAD), America's Car-Mart (CRMT), Murphy USA (MUSA), Vroom (VRM), and Penske Automotive Group (PAG). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
Group 1 Automotive (NYSE:GPI) and Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE:ABG) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Group 1 Automotive has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Asbury Automotive Group has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Group 1 Automotive presently has a consensus price target of $331.67, suggesting a potential upside of 10.82%. Asbury Automotive Group has a consensus price target of $235.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.46%. Given Asbury Automotive Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Group 1 Automotive is more favorable than Asbury Automotive Group.
99.9% of Group 1 Automotive shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Group 1 Automotive shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Asbury Automotive Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Asbury Automotive Group has a net margin of 3.68% compared to Asbury Automotive Group's net margin of 3.23%. Asbury Automotive Group's return on equity of 22.82% beat Group 1 Automotive's return on equity.
Group 1 Automotive received 132 more outperform votes than Asbury Automotive Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.11% of users gave Group 1 Automotive an outperform vote while only 53.57% of users gave Asbury Automotive Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Group 1 Automotive and Group 1 Automotive both had 14 articles in the media. Group 1 Automotive's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Asbury Automotive Group's score of -0.10 indicating that Asbury Automotive Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Asbury Automotive Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Group 1 Automotive. Group 1 Automotive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Asbury Automotive Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Group 1 Automotive beats Asbury Automotive Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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