FWRD vs. HUBG, TRMD, WERN, ZIM, AZUL, AAWW, JOBY, GBTG, JBLU, and RXO
Should you be buying Forward Air stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Forward Air include Hub Group (HUBG), TORM (TRMD), Werner Enterprises (WERN), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Azul (AZUL), Atlas Air Worldwide (AAWW), Joby Aviation (JOBY), Global Business Travel Group (GBTG), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), and RXO (RXO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Forward Air vs.
Hub Group (NASDAQ:HUBG) and Forward Air (NASDAQ:FWRD) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Hub Group received 123 more outperform votes than Forward Air when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.57% of users gave Forward Air an outperform vote while only 56.18% of users gave Hub Group an outperform vote.
Hub Group currently has a consensus price target of $102.86, indicating a potential upside of 24.87%. Forward Air has a consensus price target of $126.50, indicating a potential upside of 20.57%. Given Hub Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Hub Group is more favorable than Forward Air.
Hub Group has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forward Air has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Forward Air had 5 more articles in the media than Hub Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Forward Air and 4 mentions for Hub Group. Forward Air's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Hub Group's score of 0.40 indicating that Forward Air is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.5% of Hub Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Forward Air shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Hub Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Forward Air shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Forward Air has a net margin of 9.79% compared to Hub Group's net margin of 6.68%. Forward Air's return on equity of 29.20% beat Hub Group's return on equity.
Hub Group has higher revenue and earnings than Forward Air. Hub Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Forward Air, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Forward Air beats Hub Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding FWRD 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.
Forward Air Competitors List
