CASY vs. KMX, PAG, MUSA, CVNA, LAD, AN, ABG, RUSHA, GPI, and RUSHB
Should you be buying Casey's General Stores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Casey's General Stores include CarMax (KMX), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Murphy USA (MUSA), Carvana (CVNA), Lithia Motors (LAD), AutoNation (AN), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), and Rush Enterprises (RUSHB). These companies are all part of the "automotive dealers & gasoline service stations" industry.
CarMax (NYSE:KMX) and Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of CarMax shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
CarMax has higher revenue and earnings than Casey's General Stores. CarMax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Casey's General Stores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CarMax received 60 more outperform votes than Casey's General Stores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.87% of users gave CarMax an outperform vote while only 62.78% of users gave Casey's General Stores an outperform vote.
CarMax presently has a consensus target price of $77.42, indicating a potential upside of 15.19%. Casey's General Stores has a consensus target price of $312.63, indicating a potential downside of 1.89%. Given Casey's General Stores' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CarMax is more favorable than Casey's General Stores.
In the previous week, CarMax had 16 more articles in the media than Casey's General Stores. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for CarMax and 7 mentions for Casey's General Stores. CarMax's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Casey's General Stores' score of 0.40 indicating that Casey's General Stores is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Casey's General Stores has a net margin of 3.23% compared to Casey's General Stores' net margin of 1.81%. CarMax's return on equity of 16.70% beat Casey's General Stores' return on equity.
CarMax has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Casey's General Stores beats CarMax on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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