CP vs. CSX, GE, UNP, UPS, CNI, FDX, NSC, ODFL, DAL, and WAB
Should you be buying Canadian Pacific Kansas City stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Pacific Kansas City include CSX (CSX), General Electric (GE), Union Pacific (UNP), United Parcel Service (UPS), Canadian National Railway (CNI), FedEx (FDX), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Delta Air Lines (DAL), and Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (NYSE:CP) and CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a net margin of 28.27% compared to CSX's net margin of 24.75%. CSX's return on equity of 29.58% beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City currently has a consensus price target of $96.32, indicating a potential upside of 24.71%. CSX has a consensus price target of $37.82, indicating a potential upside of 15.49%. Given Canadian Pacific Kansas City's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than CSX.
72.2% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of CSX shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of CSX shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSX has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City received 452 more outperform votes than CSX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.31% of users gave Canadian Pacific Kansas City an outperform vote while only 62.40% of users gave CSX an outperform vote.
CSX has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. CSX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Pacific Kansas City, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian Pacific Kansas City both had 11 articles in the media. CSX's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's score of 1.20 indicating that CSX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays out 17.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CSX pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
CSX beats Canadian Pacific Kansas City on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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