YELLQ vs. PTSI, CVLG, HTLD, ULH, MRTN, OSG, CLCO, CPLP, WLFC, and SAVE
Should you be buying Yellow stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yellow include P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Heartland Express (HTLD), Universal Logistics (ULH), Marten Transport (MRTN), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Cool (CLCO), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), and Spirit Airlines (SAVE). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
P.A.M. Transportation Services (NASDAQ:PTSI) and Yellow (NASDAQ:YELLQ) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
In the previous week, P.A.M. Transportation Services had 4 more articles in the media than Yellow. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for P.A.M. Transportation Services and 1 mentions for Yellow. P.A.M. Transportation Services' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Yellow's score of 0.35 indicating that Yellow is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a net margin of 1.75% compared to P.A.M. Transportation Services' net margin of 0.00%. Yellow's return on equity of 4.29% beat P.A.M. Transportation Services' return on equity.
P.A.M. Transportation Services currently has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.95%. Given Yellow's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe P.A.M. Transportation Services is more favorable than Yellow.
Yellow has higher revenue and earnings than P.A.M. Transportation Services. Yellow 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.
22.1% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.0% of Yellow shares are held by institutional investors. 68.6% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Yellow shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
P.A.M. Transportation Services received 180 more outperform votes than Yellow when rated by MarketBeat users.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yellow has a beta of 2.88, indicating that its share price is 188% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
P.A.M. Transportation Services beats Yellow on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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