WLFC vs. PTSI, YELLQ, CPLP, DSX, PANL, ASLE, SMHI, HSHP, DSKE, and ESEA
Should you be buying Willis Lease Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Willis Lease Finance include P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Yellow (YELLQ), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), Diana Shipping (DSX), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), AerSale (ASLE), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), Daseke (DSKE), and Euroseas (ESEA).
Willis Lease Finance (NASDAQ:WLFC) and P.A.M. Transportation Services (NASDAQ:PTSI) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
Willis Lease Finance has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, P.A.M. Transportation Services has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, P.A.M. Transportation Services had 1 more articles in the media than Willis Lease Finance. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for P.A.M. Transportation Services and 6 mentions for Willis Lease Finance. Willis Lease Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat P.A.M. Transportation Services' score of 0.10 indicating that Willis Lease Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Willis Lease Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than P.A.M. Transportation Services. Willis Lease Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than P.A.M. Transportation Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Willis Lease Finance has a net margin of 10.46% compared to P.A.M. Transportation Services' net margin of 2.27%. Willis Lease Finance's return on equity of 10.34% beat P.A.M. Transportation Services' return on equity.
93.7% of Willis Lease Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.1% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by institutional investors. 54.7% of Willis Lease Finance shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 68.6% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
P.A.M. Transportation Services received 15 more outperform votes than Willis Lease Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.74% of users gave Willis Lease Finance an outperform vote while only 60.81% of users gave P.A.M. Transportation Services an outperform vote.
Summary
Willis Lease Finance beats P.A.M. Transportation Services on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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