ODFL vs. JBHT, SAIA, DAL, RYAAY, WAB, NSC, UAL, EXPD, LUV, and FDX
Should you be buying Old Dominion Freight Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Old Dominion Freight Line include J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Saia (SAIA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Ryanair (RYAAY), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), Norfolk Southern (NSC), United Airlines (UAL), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), Southwest Airlines (LUV), and FedEx (FDX). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL) and J.B. Hunt Transport Services (NASDAQ:JBHT) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Old Dominion Freight Line pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. J.B. Hunt Transport Services pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Old Dominion Freight Line pays out 18.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J.B. Hunt Transport Services pays out 27.3% 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.
Old Dominion Freight Line presently has a consensus price target of $209.08, suggesting a potential upside of 12.80%. J.B. Hunt Transport Services has a consensus price target of $194.24, suggesting a potential upside of 17.11%. Given J.B. Hunt Transport Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe J.B. Hunt Transport Services is more favorable than Old Dominion Freight Line.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services received 169 more outperform votes than Old Dominion Freight Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.99% of users gave J.B. Hunt Transport Services an outperform vote while only 54.71% of users gave Old Dominion Freight Line an outperform vote.
In the previous week, J.B. Hunt Transport Services had 6 more articles in the media than Old Dominion Freight Line. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for J.B. Hunt Transport Services and 15 mentions for Old Dominion Freight Line. J.B. Hunt Transport Services' average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Old Dominion Freight Line's score of 0.06 indicating that J.B. Hunt Transport Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Old Dominion Freight Line has a net margin of 21.19% compared to J.B. Hunt Transport Services' net margin of 5.25%. Old Dominion Freight Line's return on equity of 30.12% beat J.B. Hunt Transport Services' return on equity.
Old Dominion Freight Line has higher earnings, but lower revenue than J.B. Hunt Transport Services. J.B. Hunt Transport Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Old Dominion Freight Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.8% of Old Dominion Freight Line shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.9% of J.B. Hunt Transport Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Old Dominion Freight Line shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of J.B. Hunt Transport Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Old Dominion Freight Line has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J.B. Hunt Transport Services has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
J.B. Hunt Transport Services beats Old Dominion Freight Line on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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