PTSI vs. YELLQ, YRCW, CVLG, HTLD, ULH, MRTN, SAVE, CPLP, WLFC, and SMHI
Should you be buying P.A.M. Transportation Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of P.A.M. Transportation Services include Yellow (YELLQ), YRC Worldwide (YRCW), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Heartland Express (HTLD), Universal Logistics (ULH), Marten Transport (MRTN), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), and SEACOR Marine (SMHI). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
P.A.M. Transportation Services (NASDAQ:PTSI) and Yellow (NASDAQ:YELLQ) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
P.A.M. Transportation Services received 180 more outperform votes than Yellow when rated by MarketBeat users.
22.1% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.0% of Yellow shares are held by institutional investors. 68.6% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Yellow shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a net margin of 1.75% compared to Yellow's net margin of 0.00%. P.A.M. Transportation Services' return on equity of 4.29% beat Yellow's return on equity.
P.A.M. Transportation Services presently has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.39%. Given P.A.M. Transportation Services' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe P.A.M. Transportation Services is more favorable than Yellow.
In the previous week, P.A.M. Transportation Services had 1 more articles in the media than Yellow. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for P.A.M. Transportation Services and 1 mentions for Yellow. P.A.M. Transportation Services' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Yellow'saverage media sentiment score.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yellow has a beta of 2.76, suggesting that its stock price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Yellow has higher revenue and earnings than P.A.M. Transportation Services. Yellow is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than P.A.M. Transportation Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
P.A.M. Transportation Services beats Yellow on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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