CSX vs. CNI, CP, KSU, GE, UNP, UPS, FDX, NSC, ODFL, and DAL
Should you be buying CSX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CSX include Canadian National Railway (CNI), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Kansas City Southern (KSU), General Electric (GE), Union Pacific (UNP), United Parcel Service (UPS), FedEx (FDX), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), and Delta Air Lines (DAL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) and Canadian National Railway (NYSE:CNI) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Canadian National Railway has a net margin of 32.81% compared to CSX's net margin of 24.75%. CSX's return on equity of 29.58% beat Canadian National Railway's return on equity.
Canadian National Railway received 158 more outperform votes than CSX when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.40% of users gave CSX an outperform vote while only 52.41% of users gave Canadian National Railway an outperform vote.
CSX presently has a consensus price target of $37.82, indicating a potential upside of 15.49%. Canadian National Railway has a consensus price target of $134.74, indicating a potential upside of 8.65%. Given CSX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe CSX is more favorable than Canadian National Railway.
Canadian National Railway has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CSX. CSX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian National Railway, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
73.6% of CSX shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Canadian National Railway shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of CSX shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Canadian National Railway shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CSX has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian National Railway has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Canadian National Railway had 1 more articles in the media than CSX. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Canadian National Railway and 12 mentions for CSX. CSX's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Canadian National Railway's score of 1.10 indicating that CSX is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Canadian National Railway pays an annual dividend of $2.49 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. CSX pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian National Railway pays out 39.7% 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
Canadian National Railway beats CSX on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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