PTSI vs. USX, YRCW, USAK, ULH, HTLD, CVLG, YELLQ, ODFL, JBHT, and SAIA
Should you be buying P.A.M. Transportation Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of P.A.M. Transportation Services include U.S. Xpress Enterprises (USX), YRC Worldwide (YRCW), USA Truck (USAK), Universal Logistics (ULH), Heartland Express (HTLD), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Yellow (YELLQ), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), and Saia (SAIA). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
P.A.M. Transportation Services (NASDAQ:PTSI) and U.S. Xpress Enterprises (NYSE:USX) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Xpress Enterprises has a beta of 1.92, meaning that its stock price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a net margin of 1.75% compared to U.S. Xpress Enterprises' net margin of -2.75%. P.A.M. Transportation Services' return on equity of 4.29% beat U.S. Xpress Enterprises' return on equity.
P.A.M. Transportation Services currently has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.47%. Given P.A.M. Transportation Services' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe P.A.M. Transportation Services is more favorable than U.S. Xpress Enterprises.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than U.S. Xpress Enterprises. U.S. Xpress Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than P.A.M. Transportation Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
22.1% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.1% of U.S. Xpress Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 72.5% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.9% of U.S. Xpress Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, P.A.M. Transportation Services had 5 more articles in the media than U.S. Xpress Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for P.A.M. Transportation Services and 0 mentions for U.S. Xpress Enterprises. P.A.M. Transportation Services' average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat U.S. Xpress Enterprises' score of 0.00 indicating that P.A.M. Transportation Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
U.S. Xpress Enterprises received 9 more outperform votes than P.A.M. Transportation Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.54% of users gave P.A.M. Transportation Services an outperform vote while only 58.82% of users gave U.S. Xpress Enterprises an outperform vote.
Summary
P.A.M. Transportation Services beats U.S. Xpress Enterprises on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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