RAIL vs. RVSN, TOPS, EDRY, SFWL, AIRT, OMEX, TORO, PXS, BEST, and FLYX
Should you be buying FreightCar America stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FreightCar America include Rail Vision (RVSN), Top Ships (TOPS), EuroDry (EDRY), Shengfeng Development (SFWL), Air T (AIRT), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), Toro (TORO), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), BEST (BEST), and flyExclusive (FLYX). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
FreightCar America (NASDAQ:RAIL) and Rail Vision (NASDAQ:RVSN) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.
FreightCar America currently has a consensus price target of $3.50, indicating a potential downside of 9.33%. Given FreightCar America's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe FreightCar America is more favorable than Rail Vision.
FreightCar America received 248 more outperform votes than Rail Vision when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Rail Vision an outperform vote while only 52.75% of users gave FreightCar America an outperform vote.
FreightCar America has a beta of 1.94, meaning that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rail Vision has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rail Vision has a net margin of 0.00% compared to FreightCar America's net margin of -6.59%. FreightCar America's return on equity of 0.00% beat Rail Vision's return on equity.
In the previous week, FreightCar America had 6 more articles in the media than Rail Vision. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for FreightCar America and 0 mentions for Rail Vision. FreightCar America's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Rail Vision's score of 0.00 indicating that FreightCar America is being referred to more favorably in the media.
32.0% of FreightCar America shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.1% of Rail Vision shares are held by institutional investors. 28.0% of FreightCar America shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Rail Vision shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Rail Vision has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FreightCar America. FreightCar America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rail Vision, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
FreightCar America beats Rail Vision on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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