CARG vs. ADNT, EVTC, DORM, PSNY, LCII, QS, RAMP, GTX, VC, and DAN
Should you be buying CarGurus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CarGurus include Adient (ADNT), EVERTEC (EVTC), Dorman Products (DORM), Polestar Automotive Holding UK (PSNY), LCI Industries (LCII), QuantumScape (QS), LiveRamp (RAMP), Garrett Motion (GTX), Visteon (VC), and Dana (DAN).
Adient (NYSE:ADNT) and CarGurus (NASDAQ:CARG) are both mid-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and media sentiment.
Adient presently has a consensus target price of $39.25, indicating a potential upside of 34.79%. CarGurus has a consensus target price of $25.77, indicating a potential upside of 8.38%. Given CarGurus' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Adient is more favorable than CarGurus.
92.4% of Adient shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of CarGurus shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Adient shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.7% of CarGurus shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Adient has a beta of 2.39, indicating that its stock price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CarGurus has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CarGurus had 9 more articles in the media than Adient. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for CarGurus and 6 mentions for Adient. Adient's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat CarGurus' score of 0.61 indicating that CarGurus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CarGurus has a net margin of 4.04% compared to CarGurus' net margin of 1.04%. Adient's return on equity of 8.80% beat CarGurus' return on equity.
Adient has higher revenue and earnings than CarGurus. Adient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CarGurus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Adient received 82 more outperform votes than CarGurus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.59% of users gave CarGurus an outperform vote while only 59.81% of users gave Adient an outperform vote.
Summary
CarGurus beats Adient on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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