YRCW vs. YELLQ, PTSI, CVLG, HTLD, ULH, MRTN, OSG, CLCO, PWFL, and SAVE
Should you be buying YRC Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of YRC Worldwide include Yellow (YELLQ), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Heartland Express (HTLD), Universal Logistics (ULH), Marten Transport (MRTN), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Cool (CLCO), PowerFleet (PWFL), and Spirit Airlines (SAVE). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Yellow (NASDAQ:YELLQ) and YRC Worldwide (NASDAQ:YRCW) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Yellow had 1 more articles in the media than YRC Worldwide. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Yellow and 0 mentions for YRC Worldwide. YRC Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Yellow's score of 0.00 indicating that Yellow is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Yellow has higher revenue and earnings than YRC Worldwide. Yellow is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than YRC Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yellow has a beta of 2.88, suggesting that its share price is 188% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, YRC Worldwide has a beta of 3.32, suggesting that its share price is 232% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Yellow has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Yellow's net margin of -1.40%.
5.0% of Yellow shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.1% of YRC Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Yellow shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of YRC Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
YRC Worldwide received 316 more outperform votes than Yellow when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Yellow beats YRC Worldwide on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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