AN vs. LAD, ABG, GPI, PAG, KMX, SAH, RUSHA, RUSHB, CASY, and CVNA
Should you be buying AutoNation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AutoNation include Lithia Motors (LAD), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), CarMax (KMX), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), Rush Enterprises (RUSHB), Casey's General Stores (CASY), and Carvana (CVNA). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
AutoNation (NYSE:AN) and Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
AutoNation has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lithia Motors has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lithia Motors had 5 more articles in the media than AutoNation. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Lithia Motors and 27 mentions for AutoNation. AutoNation's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Lithia Motors' score of 0.12 indicating that AutoNation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AutoNation presently has a consensus target price of $173.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.84%. Lithia Motors has a consensus target price of $320.82, suggesting a potential upside of 22.11%. Given Lithia Motors' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lithia Motors is more favorable than AutoNation.
Lithia Motors received 106 more outperform votes than AutoNation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.32% of users gave Lithia Motors an outperform vote while only 56.41% of users gave AutoNation an outperform vote.
AutoNation has a net margin of 3.79% compared to Lithia Motors' net margin of 2.87%. AutoNation's return on equity of 48.76% beat Lithia Motors' return on equity.
AutoNation has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lithia Motors. Lithia Motors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AutoNation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.6% of AutoNation shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of AutoNation shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Lithia Motors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
AutoNation and Lithia Motors tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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