Ferguson Enterprises Inc. vs GENUINE PARTS CO, two Distribution stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where FERG and GPC diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), FERG reads +9.6% and GPC reads -2.4%; on return on assets, FERG reads 11.8% and GPC reads 4.3%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's FERG price has a different growth bar priced in than GPC (+9.6% implied for FERG vs -2.4% for GPC); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What GPC'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 | FERG | GPC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $234.31 | $124.38 |
| Market cap | $45.6B | $17.2B |
| Sector | Distribution | Distribution |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +9.6% | -2.4% |
| P/E | 22.0 | 19.0 |
| P/B | 7.77 | 3.78 |
| P/S | 1.44 | 0.68 |
| EV/EBITDA | 14.8 | 38.7 |
| Revenue growth | +5.0% | +5.5% |
| Gross margin | 31.0% | 37.8% |
| Operating margin | 8.2% | — |
| Net margin | 6.6% | 3.6% |
| Return on equity | 35.6% | 20.0% |
| Return on assets | 11.8% | 4.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 21.5% | — |
| FCF yield | 4.5% | 4.4% |
| Dividend yield | 1.4% | 3.3% |
| Debt / equity | 0.70 | 1.04 |
| Current ratio | 1.78 | 1.16 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 5.08 | 7.59 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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