CSX vs. CP, CNI, NSC, UNP, FDX, ODFL, RYAAY, DAL, JBHT, and LUV
Should you be buying CSX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CSX include Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Union Pacific (UNP), FedEx (FDX), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Ryanair (RYAAY), Delta Air Lines (DAL), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), and Southwest Airlines (LUV). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
CSX vs.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (NYSE:CP) and CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City received 456 more outperform votes than CSX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.48% of users gave Canadian Pacific Kansas City an outperform vote while only 63.57% of users gave CSX an outperform vote.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays out 18.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CSX pays out 21.7% 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. CSX has raised its dividend for 19 consecutive years. CSX is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City presently has a consensus price target of $89.40, suggesting a potential upside of 15.44%. CSX has a consensus price target of $34.92, suggesting a potential upside of 9.78%. Given Canadian Pacific Kansas City's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than CSX.
72.3% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.9% of CSX shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of CSX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSX has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a net margin of 40.22% compared to CSX's net margin of 28.35%. CSX's return on equity of 33.01% beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity.
CSX has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. CSX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Pacific Kansas City, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CSX had 8 more articles in the media than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for CSX and 7 mentions for Canadian Pacific Kansas City. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat CSX's score of 0.33 indicating that Canadian Pacific Kansas City is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
CSX beats Canadian Pacific Kansas City on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CSX and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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