GXO vs. GATX, GBTG, RXO, XPO, KEX, LSTR, ALK, AL, R, and FRO
Should you be buying GXO Logistics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GXO Logistics include GATX (GATX), Global Business Travel Group (GBTG), RXO (RXO), XPO (XPO), Kirby (KEX), Landstar System (LSTR), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Air Lease (AL), Ryder System (R), and Frontline (FRO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
GXO Logistics (NYSE:GXO) and GATX (NYSE:GATX) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
GATX has a net margin of 17.64% compared to GXO Logistics' net margin of 2.34%. GATX's return on equity of 11.29% beat GXO Logistics' return on equity.
90.7% of GXO Logistics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of GATX shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of GXO Logistics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of GATX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
GXO Logistics has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GATX has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, GATX had 11 more articles in the media than GXO Logistics. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for GATX and 14 mentions for GXO Logistics. GATX's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat GXO Logistics' score of 0.33 indicating that GATX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GXO Logistics currently has a consensus price target of $69.69, indicating a potential upside of 36.92%. GATX has a consensus price target of $135.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.36%. Given GXO Logistics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe GXO Logistics is more favorable than GATX.
GATX has lower revenue, but higher earnings than GXO Logistics. GATX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GXO Logistics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GATX received 275 more outperform votes than GXO Logistics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.71% of users gave GATX an outperform vote while only 44.83% of users gave GXO Logistics an outperform vote.
Summary
GATX beats GXO Logistics on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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