CSX vs. ENB, CP, CNI, MPLX, RYAAY, VIK, BIP, PAA, MMYT, and ZTO
Should you be buying CSX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CSX include Enbridge (ENB), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), Mplx (MPLX), Ryanair (RYAAY), Viking (VIK), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), and ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
CSX vs.
Enbridge (NYSE:ENB) and CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
CSX has a net margin of 23.95% compared to Enbridge's net margin of 10.04%. CSX's return on equity of 28.15% beat Enbridge's return on equity.
Enbridge has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSX has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
54.6% of Enbridge shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of CSX shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Enbridge shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of CSX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, CSX had 17 more articles in the media than Enbridge. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for CSX and 29 mentions for Enbridge. CSX's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Enbridge's score of 0.83 indicating that CSX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Enbridge presently has a consensus price target of $67.00, indicating a potential upside of 46.93%. CSX has a consensus price target of $33.90, indicating a potential upside of 8.56%. Given Enbridge's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Enbridge is more favorable than CSX.
Enbridge has higher revenue and earnings than CSX. CSX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enbridge, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Enbridge received 215 more outperform votes than CSX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.94% of users gave Enbridge an outperform vote while only 63.08% of users gave CSX an outperform vote.
Enbridge pays an annual dividend of $2.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Enbridge pays out 139.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CSX pays out 31.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enbridge has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and CSX has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years.
Summary
CSX beats Enbridge on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CSX) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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