CP vs. CSX, NSC, UNP, FDX, ODFL, UPS, RYAAY, DAL, WAB, and GE
Should you be buying Canadian Pacific Kansas City stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Pacific Kansas City include CSX (CSX), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Union Pacific (UNP), FedEx (FDX), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), United Parcel Service (UPS), Ryanair (RYAAY), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), and General Electric (GE). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (NYSE:CP) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking and risk.
CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. CSX pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays out 17.8% 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. CSX has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years. CSX is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, CSX had 19 more articles in the media than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for CSX and 23 mentions for Canadian Pacific Kansas City. CSX's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's score of 0.30 indicating that Canadian Pacific Kansas City is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CSX presently has a consensus price target of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.86%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a consensus price target of $97.22, suggesting a potential upside of 18.66%. Given CSX's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than CSX.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City received 448 more outperform votes than CSX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.37% of users gave Canadian Pacific Kansas City an outperform vote while only 62.47% of users gave CSX an outperform vote.
73.6% of CSX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of CSX shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
CSX has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. CSX 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.
CSX has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a net margin of 31.29% compared to Canadian Pacific Kansas City's net margin of 24.75%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity of 29.58% beat CSX's return on equity.
Summary
CSX beats Canadian Pacific Kansas City on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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