CSX vs. NSC, CP, UNP, FDX, ODFL, RYAAY, DAL, WAB, UAL, and LUV
Should you be buying CSX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CSX include Norfolk Southern (NSC), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Union Pacific (UNP), FedEx (FDX), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Ryanair (RYAAY), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), United Airlines (UAL), and Southwest Airlines (LUV). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Norfolk Southern (NYSE:NSC) and CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, earnings and profitability.
CSX has a net margin of 24.75% compared to CSX's net margin of 11.76%. Norfolk Southern's return on equity of 29.58% beat CSX's return on equity.
Norfolk Southern received 261 more outperform votes than CSX when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.47% of users gave CSX an outperform vote while only 57.40% of users gave Norfolk Southern an outperform vote.
75.1% of Norfolk Southern shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of CSX shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Norfolk Southern shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of CSX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Norfolk Southern pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Norfolk Southern pays out 87.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CSX pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Norfolk Southern has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and CSX has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years.
Norfolk Southern has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSX has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Norfolk Southern had 35 more articles in the media than CSX. MarketBeat recorded 53 mentions for Norfolk Southern and 18 mentions for CSX. Norfolk Southern's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat CSX's score of 0.22 indicating that CSX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Norfolk Southern currently has a consensus target price of $262.32, indicating a potential upside of 9.33%. CSX has a consensus target price of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.80%. Given Norfolk Southern's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CSX is more favorable than Norfolk Southern.
CSX has higher revenue and earnings than Norfolk Southern. CSX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Norfolk Southern, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CSX beats Norfolk Southern on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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