TFII vs. ZTO, SAIA, ASR, XPO, PAC, AAL, UHAL, CHRW, KNX, and KEX
Should you be buying TFI International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TFI International include ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), Saia (SAIA), Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S. A. B. de C. V. (ASR), XPO (XPO), Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (PAC), American Airlines Group (AAL), U-Haul (UHAL), C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW), Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), and Kirby (KEX). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
TFI International (NYSE:TFII) and ZTO Express (Cayman) (NYSE:ZTO) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
ZTO Express (Cayman) has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TFI International. ZTO Express (Cayman) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TFI International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TFI International presently has a consensus target price of $160.78, suggesting a potential upside of 17.30%. ZTO Express (Cayman) has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.69%. Given ZTO Express (Cayman)'s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ZTO Express (Cayman) is more favorable than TFI International.
TFI International pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. ZTO Express (Cayman) pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. TFI International pays out 28.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ZTO Express (Cayman) pays out 41.2% 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.
TFI International has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ZTO Express (Cayman) has a beta of -0.06, suggesting that its stock price is 106% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ZTO Express (Cayman) received 134 more outperform votes than TFI International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.19% of users gave ZTO Express (Cayman) an outperform vote while only 60.70% of users gave TFI International an outperform vote.
73.3% of TFI International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of ZTO Express (Cayman) shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of TFI International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of ZTO Express (Cayman) shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, TFI International and TFI International both had 3 articles in the media. TFI International's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat ZTO Express (Cayman)'s score of 1.14 indicating that TFI International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ZTO Express (Cayman) has a net margin of 22.70% compared to TFI International's net margin of 6.44%. TFI International's return on equity of 20.39% beat ZTO Express (Cayman)'s return on equity.
Summary
ZTO Express (Cayman) beats TFI International on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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