SAIA vs. SNDR, ARCB, ODFL, JBHT, UHAL, KNX, LSTR, R, CAR, and WERN
Should you be buying Saia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saia include Schneider National (SNDR), ArcBest (ARCB), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), U-Haul (UHAL), Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Landstar System (LSTR), Ryder System (R), Avis Budget Group (CAR), and Werner Enterprises (WERN). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Schneider National (NYSE:SNDR) and Saia (NASDAQ:SAIA) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Saia received 45 more outperform votes than Schneider National when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.73% of users gave Schneider National an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave Saia an outperform vote.
28.5% of Schneider National shares are held by institutional investors. 18.8% of Schneider National shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Saia shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Schneider National presently has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.21%. Saia has a consensus target price of $494.39, indicating a potential upside of 24.75%. Given Saia's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Schneider National is more favorable than Saia.
Saia has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Schneider National. Schneider National is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Saia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Saia has a net margin of 12.42% compared to Saia's net margin of 2.95%. Schneider National's return on equity of 19.53% beat Saia's return on equity.
Schneider National has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saia has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Saia had 9 more articles in the media than Schneider National. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Saia and 6 mentions for Schneider National. Schneider National's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Saia's score of 0.33 indicating that Saia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Saia beats Schneider National on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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