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Viking (VIK) Competitors

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VIK vs. CP, CNI, CSX, MPLX, RYAAY, BIP, PAA, PAC, MMYT, and ZTO

Should you be buying Viking stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viking include Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), CSX (CSX), MPLX (MPLX), Ryanair (RYAAY), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), Grupo Aeroportuario Del Pacifico (PAC), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), and ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.

Viking vs. Its Competitors

Viking (NYSE:VIK) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (NYSE:CP) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a net margin of 25.99% compared to Viking's net margin of 9.60%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity of 8.68% beat Viking's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Viking9.60% -128.44% 7.99%
Canadian Pacific Kansas City 25.99%8.68%4.79%

Viking has a beta of 2.38, suggesting that its share price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Viking had 10 more articles in the media than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Viking and 16 mentions for Canadian Pacific Kansas City. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Viking's score of 0.36 indicating that Canadian Pacific Kansas City is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Viking
9 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Canadian Pacific Kansas City
11 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Viking presently has a consensus price target of $49.87, indicating a potential downside of 10.25%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a consensus price target of $90.95, indicating a potential upside of 12.13%. Given Canadian Pacific Kansas City's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than Viking.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Viking
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Canadian Pacific Kansas City
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63

Canadian Pacific Kansas City has higher revenue and earnings than Viking. Canadian Pacific Kansas City is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Viking, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Viking$5.33B4.62$152.33M$1.2345.17
Canadian Pacific Kansas City$10.62B7.04$2.71B$2.9627.40

98.8% of Viking shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Canadian Pacific Kansas City beats Viking on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding VIK and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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VIK vs. The Competition

MetricVikingLEISURE&REC SVS IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$24.58B$8.84B$8.31B$20.72B
Dividend YieldN/A2.11%3.17%3.72%
P/E Ratio45.1748.2021.0628.09
Price / Sales4.622.143.3438.30
Price / Cash22.3614.0017.5022.53
Price / Book-108.943.744.624.58
Net Income$152.33M$328.98M$213.40M$986.06M
7 Day Performance5.13%5.83%3.45%2.79%
1 Month Performance15.89%7.58%11.01%5.46%
1 Year Performance64.14%3.86%10.66%15.06%

Viking Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VIK
Viking
3.687 of 5 stars
$55.56
+1.8%
$49.87
-10.2%
+62.7%$24.58B$5.33B45.1712,000Trending News
CP
Canadian Pacific Kansas City
4.3377 of 5 stars
$79.30
+1.3%
$90.95
+14.7%
+0.5%$72.16B$10.62B26.7919,797Positive News
Analyst Revision
CNI
Canadian National Railway
4.4744 of 5 stars
$104.11
+0.7%
$120.52
+15.8%
-10.4%$64.89B$12.44B20.2925,428Positive News
CSX
CSX
4.3428 of 5 stars
$32.63
-0.9%
$34.14
+4.6%
-0.4%$61.82B$14.54B19.5423,500Trending News
Analyst Forecast
MPLX
MPLX
1.8314 of 5 stars
$51.51
-0.2%
$55.50
+7.7%
+18.7%$52.68B$11.93B11.905,560Positive News
RYAAY
Ryanair
4.4379 of 5 stars
$57.67
+1.2%
$147.00
+154.9%
-50.9%$30.28B$14.98B18.0425,952Positive News
Analyst Forecast
BIP
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
4.6247 of 5 stars
$33.52
-0.1%
$41.67
+24.3%
+17.6%$15.59B$21.04B-1,675.1661,000Positive News
PAA
Plains All American Pipeline
3.4578 of 5 stars
$18.32
+0.3%
$20.50
+11.9%
-2.5%$12.88B$50.09B25.104,100Dividend Announcement
Options Volume
PAC
Grupo Aeroportuario Del Pacifico
2.6244 of 5 stars
$229.99
+1.2%
$200.00
-13.0%
+47.8%$11.48B$1.84B24.243,275News Coverage
MMYT
MakeMyTrip
3.7014 of 5 stars
$98.02
-1.8%
$121.67
+24.1%
+7.6%$11.11B$978.34M118.105,122Gap Up
High Trading Volume
ZTO
ZTO Express (Cayman)
4.4156 of 5 stars
$17.75
-0.2%
$21.15
+19.2%
-13.1%$10.64B$6.07B11.2324,471Analyst Forecast

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