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Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX) Competitors

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$43.52 -1.45 (-3.21%)
Closing price 08/25/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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KNX vs. HTLD, HUBG, JBHT, LSTR, MRTN, ODFL, WERN, HRI, SNDR, and UHAL

Should you be buying Knight-Swift Transportation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Knight-Swift Transportation include Heartland Express (HTLD), Hub Group (HUBG), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Landstar System (LSTR), Marten Transport (MRTN), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Herc (HRI), Schneider National (SNDR), and U-Haul (UHAL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.

Knight-Swift Transportation vs. Its Competitors

Heartland Express (NASDAQ:HTLD) and Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE:KNX) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.

Knight-Swift Transportation has a net margin of 2.22% compared to Heartland Express' net margin of -3.85%. Knight-Swift Transportation's return on equity of 3.03% beat Heartland Express' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Heartland Express-3.85% -4.42% -2.69%
Knight-Swift Transportation 2.22%3.03%1.70%

Heartland Express presently has a consensus price target of $9.70, indicating a potential upside of 12.79%. Knight-Swift Transportation has a consensus price target of $53.88, indicating a potential upside of 23.78%. Given Knight-Swift Transportation's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Knight-Swift Transportation is more favorable than Heartland Express.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Heartland Express
2 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.67
Knight-Swift Transportation
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.88

In the previous week, Knight-Swift Transportation had 2 more articles in the media than Heartland Express. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Knight-Swift Transportation and 12 mentions for Heartland Express. Knight-Swift Transportation's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Heartland Express' score of 1.38 indicating that Knight-Swift Transportation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Heartland Express
9 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Knight-Swift Transportation
12 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Heartland Express pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Knight-Swift Transportation pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Heartland Express pays out -17.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Knight-Swift Transportation pays out 70.6% 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. Knight-Swift Transportation has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Knight-Swift Transportation is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Heartland Express has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Knight-Swift Transportation has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Knight-Swift Transportation has higher revenue and earnings than Heartland Express. Heartland Express is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Knight-Swift Transportation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Heartland Express$1.05B0.64-$29.72M-$0.46-18.70
Knight-Swift Transportation$7.41B0.95$117.63M$1.0242.67

53.5% of Heartland Express shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.7% of Heartland Express shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Knight-Swift Transportation beats Heartland Express on 18 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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KNX vs. The Competition

MetricKnight-Swift TransportationTRANS IndustryTransportation SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.30B$7.02B$7.47B$21.29B
Dividend Yield1.60%1.25%949.32%3.54%
P/E Ratio42.6729.3214.5128.91
Price / Sales0.951.52477.5451.05
Price / Cash7.559.908.0618.23
Price / Book0.993.532.194.69
Net Income$117.63M$167.24M$571.12M$995.89M
7 Day Performance0.28%0.92%1.51%2.23%
1 Month Performance-2.89%-4.90%-0.16%2.46%
1 Year Performance-18.14%-12.11%4.63%10.46%

Knight-Swift Transportation Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KNX
Knight-Swift Transportation
4.8701 of 5 stars
$43.53
-3.2%
$53.88
+23.8%
-19.7%$7.30B$7.41B42.6735,300Positive News
HTLD
Heartland Express
4.1119 of 5 stars
$8.60
-1.8%
$9.70
+12.8%
-30.5%$665.73M$1.05B-18.705,700Positive News
HUBG
Hub Group
4.3483 of 5 stars
$36.62
-2.3%
$40.35
+10.2%
-16.2%$2.24B$3.78B22.196,500News Coverage
Positive News
JBHT
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
4.8143 of 5 stars
$142.75
-4.9%
$164.90
+15.5%
-19.3%$13.82B$12.09B25.9533,646News Coverage
Positive News
LSTR
Landstar System
4.4727 of 5 stars
$132.93
-2.1%
$145.17
+9.2%
-29.5%$4.61B$4.82B27.871,441Positive News
MRTN
Marten Transport
3.8628 of 5 stars
$12.06
-2.7%
$19.00
+57.5%
-31.6%$983.13M$920.87M46.383,776News Coverage
ODFL
Old Dominion Freight Line
3.9424 of 5 stars
$155.47
-2.3%
$167.62
+7.8%
-23.7%$32.68B$5.81B30.3721,895Analyst Revision
WERN
Werner Enterprises
3.6997 of 5 stars
$28.95
-2.0%
$30.50
+5.4%
-23.4%$1.73B$3.03B33.669,287Positive News
HRI
Herc
1.6344 of 5 stars
$132.07
+1.8%
$144.60
+9.5%
-9.8%$4.39B$3.54B153.577,600Positive News
SNDR
Schneider National
4.4981 of 5 stars
$24.80
-2.1%
$27.29
+10.0%
-9.1%$4.35B$5.48B35.4219,400News Coverage
UHAL
U-Haul
0.5969 of 5 stars
$57.35
-2.8%
N/A-18.9%$11.24B$5.91B26.5532,200

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This page (NYSE:KNX) was last updated on 8/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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