FWRD vs. HUBG, ATSG, PKOH, UPS, FDX, EXPD, XPO, RKLB, CHRW, and CRGO
Should you be buying Forward Air stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Forward Air include Hub Group (HUBG), Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), Park-Ohio (PKOH), United Parcel Service (UPS), FedEx (FDX), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), XPO (XPO), Rocket Lab USA (RKLB), C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW), and Freightos (CRGO).
Forward Air vs. Its Competitors
Forward Air (NASDAQ:FWRD) and Hub Group (NASDAQ:HUBG) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Hub Group received 140 more outperform votes than Forward Air when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.75% of users gave Hub Group an outperform vote while only 53.71% of users gave Forward Air an outperform vote.
97.0% of Forward Air shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.8% of Hub Group shares are held by institutional investors. 17.2% of Forward Air shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Hub Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hub Group has a net margin of 2.64% compared to Forward Air's net margin of -31.14%. Hub Group's return on equity of 7.10% beat Forward Air's return on equity.
Forward Air has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hub Group has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Forward Air presently has a consensus target price of $32.25, suggesting a potential upside of 59.57%. Hub Group has a consensus target price of $43.68, suggesting a potential upside of 32.77%. Given Forward Air's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Forward Air is more favorable than Hub Group.
In the previous week, Forward Air had 11 more articles in the media than Hub Group. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Forward Air and 7 mentions for Hub Group. Hub Group's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Forward Air's score of 0.58 indicating that Hub Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Forward Air pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Hub Group pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Forward Air pays out -3.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hub Group pays out 29.4% 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. Forward Air is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Forward Air has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hub Group. Forward Air is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hub Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hub Group beats Forward Air on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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This page (NASDAQ:FWRD) was last updated on 6/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
