CASEY’S GENERAL STORES, INC. vs COPART, INC., two Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CASY and CPRT diverge most: on debt / equity, CASY reads 0.59 and CPRT reads 0.00; on ev/ebitda, CASY reads 213.5 and CPRT reads 15.1. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CASY price has a different growth bar priced in than CPRT (+11.4% implied for CASY vs +8.5% for CPRT); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What CPRT's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CASY | CPRT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $615.56 | $29.94 |
| Market cap | $22.9B | $28.2B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +11.4% | +8.5% |
| P/E | 29.6 | 18.7 |
| P/B | 5.58 | 3.22 |
| P/S | 1.22 | 6.08 |
| EV/EBITDA | 213.5 | 15.1 |
| Revenue growth | +13.3% | +1.1% |
| Operating margin | — | 37.5% |
| Net margin | 4.1% | 33.5% |
| Return on equity | 18.9% | 17.7% |
| Return on assets | 8.5% | 16.1% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 15.4% |
| FCF yield | 2.8% | 4.7% |
| Dividend yield | 0.3% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.59 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.02 | 7.61 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 5.41 | 8.31 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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