YRCW vs. USX, USAK, MRTN, ULH, HTLD, CVLG, YELLQ, PTSI, ODFL, and JBHT
Should you be buying YRC Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of YRC Worldwide include U.S. Xpress Enterprises (USX), USA Truck (USAK), Marten Transport (MRTN), Universal Logistics (ULH), Heartland Express (HTLD), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Yellow (YELLQ), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), and J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
U.S. Xpress Enterprises (NYSE:USX) and YRC Worldwide (NASDAQ:YRCW) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
U.S. Xpress Enterprises has a beta of 1.92, meaning that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, YRC Worldwide has a beta of 3.32, meaning that its share price is 232% more volatile than the S&P 500.
30.1% of U.S. Xpress Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.1% of YRC Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 31.9% of U.S. Xpress Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of YRC Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
U.S. Xpress Enterprises has higher earnings, but lower revenue than YRC Worldwide. U.S. Xpress Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than YRC Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
YRC Worldwide received 126 more outperform votes than U.S. Xpress Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.38% of users gave YRC Worldwide an outperform vote while only 58.82% of users gave U.S. Xpress Enterprises an outperform vote.
In the previous week, YRC Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled U.S. Xpress Enterprises'average media sentiment score.
YRC Worldwide has a net margin of -1.40% compared to YRC Worldwide's net margin of -2.75%. U.S. Xpress Enterprises' return on equity of 0.00% beat YRC Worldwide's return on equity.
Summary
YRC Worldwide beats U.S. Xpress Enterprises on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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