ARCB vs. KNX, LSTR, SNDR, WERN, MRTN, ULH, HTLD, CVLG, PTSI, and YELLQ
Should you be buying ArcBest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ArcBest include Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Landstar System (LSTR), Schneider National (SNDR), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Marten Transport (MRTN), Universal Logistics (ULH), Heartland Express (HTLD), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), and Yellow (YELLQ). These companies are all part of the "trucking, except local" industry.
ArcBest (NASDAQ:ARCB) and Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE:KNX) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and earnings.
Knight-Swift Transportation received 338 more outperform votes than ArcBest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.16% of users gave Knight-Swift Transportation an outperform vote while only 53.23% of users gave ArcBest an outperform vote.
ArcBest has a net margin of 2.80% compared to Knight-Swift Transportation's net margin of 0.88%. ArcBest's return on equity of 15.27% beat Knight-Swift Transportation's return on equity.
ArcBest has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Knight-Swift Transportation has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ArcBest presently has a consensus target price of $143.85, indicating a potential upside of 19.72%. Knight-Swift Transportation has a consensus target price of $56.79, indicating a potential upside of 10.80%. Given ArcBest's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ArcBest is more favorable than Knight-Swift Transportation.
ArcBest pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Knight-Swift Transportation pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. ArcBest pays out 9.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Knight-Swift Transportation pays out 95.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Knight-Swift Transportation has higher revenue and earnings than ArcBest. ArcBest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Knight-Swift Transportation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Knight-Swift Transportation had 16 more articles in the media than ArcBest. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Knight-Swift Transportation and 10 mentions for ArcBest. ArcBest's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Knight-Swift Transportation's score of 0.19 indicating that ArcBest is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.3% of ArcBest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of ArcBest shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Knight-Swift Transportation beats ArcBest on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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