DRIVEN BRANDS HOLDINGS INC. vs U-HAUL HOLDING COMPANY, two Auto Services stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Driven Brands runs car washes and auto services; U-Haul rents moving trucks and self-storage, and their profitability diverges sharply this cycle. Driven earns a 23.23% return on equity at a 9.74% margin; U-Haul earns a thin 1.09% return and 1.38% margin, its heavy fleet-and-storage investment weighing on returns and pushing free cash to a negative 10.37%. Driven trades at 12.54 times earnings; U-Haul has no clean multiple. Both carry real debt. The pair contrasts an auto-services franchisor with a truck-rental-and-storage operator: Driven earns strong current returns, U-Haul is mid-investment in its fleet and storage footprint, its reported returns depressed by the spending.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | DRVN | UHAL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $15.49 | $67.27 |
| Market cap | $2.6B | $13.2B |
| Sector | Auto Services | Auto Services |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +9.4% | — |
| P/E | 13.8 | — |
| P/B | 3.20 | 1.73 |
| P/S | 1.34 | 2.18 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.6 | 28.3 |
| Revenue growth | +7.0% | +3.5% |
| Operating margin | 13.9% | -6.0% |
| Net margin | 9.7% | 1.4% |
| Return on equity | 23.2% | 1.1% |
| Return on assets | 5.3% | 0.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 7.0% | 2.2% |
| FCF yield | 4.8% | -10.3% |
| Dividend yield | — | 1.5% |
| Debt / equity | 2.12 | 1.07 |
| Current ratio | 1.38 | — |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 0.87 | 1.36 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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