AUTO vs. RMV, PSON, AAF, WPP, ITV, INF, FOUR, VOD, MONY, and BCG
Should you be buying Auto Trader Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Auto Trader Group include Rightmove (RMV), Pearson (PSON), Airtel Africa (AAF), WPP (WPP), ITV (ITV), Informa (INF), 4imprint Group (FOUR), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), Moneysupermarket.com Group (MONY), and Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Rightmove (LON:RMV) and Auto Trader Group (LON:AUTO) are both mid-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.
Rightmove received 19 more outperform votes than Auto Trader Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.61% of users gave Auto Trader Group an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave Rightmove an outperform vote.
Rightmove has a net margin of 54.66% compared to Rightmove's net margin of 44.36%. Auto Trader Group's return on equity of 289.63% beat Rightmove's return on equity.
Rightmove has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Auto Trader Group has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rightmove pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Auto Trader Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Rightmove pays out 3,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Auto Trader Group pays out 3,600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Auto Trader Group has higher revenue and earnings than Rightmove. Rightmove is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Auto Trader Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
87.9% of Rightmove shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.1% of Auto Trader Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Rightmove shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Auto Trader Group 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.
Rightmove currently has a consensus price target of GBX 602.67, suggesting a potential upside of 9.82%. Auto Trader Group has a consensus price target of GBX 637.50, suggesting a potential downside of 12.67%. Given Auto Trader Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Rightmove is more favorable than Auto Trader Group.
In the previous week, Rightmove had 2 more articles in the media than Auto Trader Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Rightmove and 3 mentions for Auto Trader Group. Rightmove's average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Auto Trader Group's score of 0.08 indicating that Auto Trader Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Rightmove beats Auto Trader Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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