YELLQ vs. MRTN, ULH, HTLD, CVLG, PTSI, ODFL, JBHT, SAIA, KNX, and LSTR
Should you be buying Yellow stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yellow include Marten Transport (MRTN), Universal Logistics (ULH), Heartland Express (HTLD), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Saia (SAIA), Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), and Landstar System (LSTR). These companies are all part of the "trucking, except local" industry.
Yellow (NASDAQ:YELLQ) and Marten Transport (NASDAQ:MRTN) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk and profitability.
Yellow has a beta of 2.76, meaning that its stock price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marten Transport has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Marten Transport had 1 more articles in the media than Yellow. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Marten Transport and 2 mentions for Yellow. Marten Transport's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Yellow's score of -0.34 indicating that Marten Transport is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Marten Transport received 268 more outperform votes than Yellow when rated by MarketBeat users.
5.0% of Yellow shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.1% of Marten Transport shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Yellow shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.9% of Marten Transport shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Marten Transport has a net margin of 5.31% compared to Yellow's net margin of 0.00%. Marten Transport's return on equity of 7.65% beat Yellow's return on equity.
Marten Transport has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yellow. Yellow is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marten Transport, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marten Transport has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.14%. Given Marten Transport's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Marten Transport is more favorable than Yellow.
Summary
Marten Transport beats Yellow on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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