CARS vs. SBH, GOOS, CBRL, KRUS, JACK, WINA, HIBB, HLF, FWRG, and SCVL
Should you be buying Cars.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cars.com include Sally Beauty (SBH), Canada Goose (GOOS), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Jack in the Box (JACK), Winmark (WINA), Hibbett (HIBB), Herbalife (HLF), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), and Shoe Carnival (SCVL). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Sally Beauty (NYSE:SBH) and Cars.com (NYSE:CARS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale 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.
Sally Beauty presently has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.57%. Cars.com has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.36%. Given Sally Beauty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cars.com is more favorable than Sally Beauty.
89.2% of Cars.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Sally Beauty shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Cars.com 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.
Cars.com has a net margin of 15.34% compared to Cars.com's net margin of 4.36%. Cars.com's return on equity of 34.23% beat Sally Beauty's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cars.com had 62 more articles in the media than Sally Beauty. MarketBeat recorded 76 mentions for Cars.com and 14 mentions for Sally Beauty. Cars.com's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Sally Beauty's score of 0.03 indicating that Sally Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sally Beauty received 198 more outperform votes than Cars.com when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.80% of users gave Cars.com an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Sally Beauty an outperform vote.
Sally Beauty has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cars.com has a beta of 2.05, indicating that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sally Beauty has higher revenue and earnings than Cars.com. Sally Beauty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cars.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cars.com beats Sally Beauty on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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