LSTR vs. KNX, SAIA, WERN, MRTN, ULH, HTLD, JBHT, SNDR, ARCB, and FRO
Should you be buying Landstar System stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Landstar System include Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Saia (SAIA), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Marten Transport (MRTN), Universal Logistics (ULH), Heartland Express (HTLD), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Schneider National (SNDR), ArcBest (ARCB), and Frontline (FRO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE:KNX) and Landstar System (NASDAQ:LSTR) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, Landstar System had 1 more articles in the media than Knight-Swift Transportation. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Landstar System and 9 mentions for Knight-Swift Transportation. Landstar System's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Knight-Swift Transportation's score of 1.13 indicating that Knight-Swift Transportation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Landstar System has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Knight-Swift Transportation. Landstar System is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Knight-Swift Transportation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Landstar System has a net margin of 4.63% compared to Landstar System's net margin of 1.50%. Knight-Swift Transportation's return on equity of 23.11% beat Landstar System's return on equity.
Knight-Swift Transportation pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Landstar System pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Knight-Swift Transportation pays out 95.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Landstar System pays out 20.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Knight-Swift Transportation has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Landstar System has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years.
Knight-Swift Transportation currently has a consensus price target of $57.38, indicating a potential upside of 20.30%. Landstar System has a consensus price target of $183.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.62%. Given Landstar System's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Knight-Swift Transportation is more favorable than Landstar System.
Knight-Swift Transportation has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Landstar System has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Knight-Swift Transportation received 269 more outperform votes than Landstar System when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.37% of users gave Knight-Swift Transportation an outperform vote while only 52.13% of users gave Landstar System an outperform vote.
88.8% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of Landstar System shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Landstar System shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Knight-Swift Transportation beats Landstar System on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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