YELLQ vs. PTSI, CVLG, HTLD, ULH, MRTN, SAVE, WLFC, FWRD, CLCO, and OSG
Should you be buying Yellow stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yellow include P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Heartland Express (HTLD), Universal Logistics (ULH), Marten Transport (MRTN), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), Forward Air (FWRD), Cool (CLCO), and Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Yellow (NASDAQ:YELLQ) and P.A.M. Transportation Services (NASDAQ:PTSI) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
Yellow has a beta of 2.76, suggesting that its share price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, P.A.M. Transportation Services has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, P.A.M. Transportation Services had 4 more articles in the media than Yellow. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for P.A.M. Transportation Services and 0 mentions for Yellow. P.A.M. Transportation Services' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Yellow's score of 0.00 indicating that P.A.M. Transportation Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
5.0% of Yellow shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.1% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Yellow shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 72.5% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers 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 received 180 more outperform votes than Yellow when rated by MarketBeat users.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.90%. Given P.A.M. Transportation Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe P.A.M. Transportation Services is more favorable than Yellow.
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 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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