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 0.62 and CPRT reads 0.00; on ev/ebitda, CASY reads 312.0 and CPRT reads 14.1. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What CASY's price implies is a demanding bet versus history and the cohort (whole-company basis). 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 | $861.60 | $27.94 |
| Market cap | $32.1B | $26.3B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +10.0% |
| P/E | 45.0 | 17.5 |
| P/B | 8.12 | 3.00 |
| P/S | 1.83 | 5.68 |
| EV/EBITDA | 312.0 | 14.1 |
| Revenue growth | +10.1% | +1.1% |
| Operating margin | — | 37.5% |
| Net margin | 4.1% | 33.5% |
| Return on equity | 18.1% | 17.7% |
| Return on assets | 8.0% | 16.1% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 15.4% |
| FCF yield | 2.3% | 5.1% |
| Dividend yield | 0.2% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.62 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.01 | 7.61 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.45 | 8.31 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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