CNI vs. CP, CSX, NSC, UNP, FDX, ODFL, DAL, RYAAY, UPS, and WAB
Should you be buying Canadian National Railway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian National Railway include Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), CSX (CSX), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Union Pacific (UNP), FedEx (FDX), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Ryanair (RYAAY), United Parcel Service (UPS), and Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (NYSE:CP) and Canadian National Railway (NYSE:CNI) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian National Railway has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City received 293 more outperform votes than Canadian National Railway when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.29% of users gave Canadian Pacific Kansas City an outperform vote while only 52.53% of users gave Canadian National Railway an outperform vote.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Canadian National Railway pays an annual dividend of $2.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays out 17.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian National Railway pays out 39.2% 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. Canadian National Railway has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Canadian National Railway is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Canadian National Railway has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. Canadian National Railway 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.
72.2% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Canadian National Railway shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Canadian National Railway shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Canadian National Railway has a net margin of 32.81% compared to Canadian National Railway's net margin of 28.27%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity of 23.27% beat Canadian National Railway's return on equity.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City currently has a consensus price target of $96.42, indicating a potential upside of 18.29%. Canadian National Railway has a consensus price target of $134.47, indicating a potential upside of 6.57%. Given Canadian National Railway's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than Canadian National Railway.
In the previous week, Canadian National Railway had 8 more articles in the media than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Canadian National Railway and 12 mentions for Canadian Pacific Kansas City. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Canadian National Railway's score of 0.18 indicating that Canadian National Railway is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Canadian National Railway beats Canadian Pacific Kansas City on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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