COPART, INC. vs THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY, two Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Copart auctions salvage vehicles online and keeps a remarkable 33.48% of revenue as profit, an asset-light $28.8B operator carrying no debt. Sherwin-Williams manufactures and sells paint, a $85.4B name keeping 10.86% net while running 2.64 debt to equity to fund its factories and stores. The auction model needs little capital, which shows in Copart's 19.06 times earnings against Sherwin's 33.05. Sherwin pays a 0.92% dividend where Copart pays none, preferring to hold its cash. Copart yields 4.65% in free cash, Sherwin 3.4%. One collects fees on other people's wrecks; the other owns the whole chain from can to contractor.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CPRT | SHW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $27.52 | $334.01 |
| Market cap | $25.9B | $82.9B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +5.4% | +10.9% |
| P/E | 17.2 | 32.1 |
| P/B | 2.96 | 18.70 |
| P/S | 5.59 | 3.46 |
| EV/EBITDA | 13.9 | 263.0 |
| Revenue growth | +1.1% | +4.1% |
| Gross margin | — | 49.1% |
| Operating margin | 37.5% | — |
| Net margin | 33.5% | 10.9% |
| Return on equity | 17.7% | 58.7% |
| Return on assets | 16.1% | 9.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 15.4% | — |
| FCF yield | 5.2% | 3.5% |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 2.64 |
| Current ratio | 7.61 | 0.86 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 8.31 | 6.93 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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