WAB vs. JBHT, RYAAY, LUV, EXPD, SAIA, XPO, UAL, TFII, UHAL, and ZTO
Should you be buying Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies include J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Ryanair (RYAAY), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), Saia (SAIA), XPO (XPO), United Airlines (UAL), TFI International (TFII), U-Haul (UHAL), and ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (NYSE:WAB) and J.B. Hunt Transport Services (NASDAQ:JBHT) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and risk.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. J.B. Hunt Transport Services pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies pays out 17.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J.B. Hunt Transport Services pays out 24.7% 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.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has a net margin of 8.42% compared to J.B. Hunt Transport Services' net margin of 5.68%. J.B. Hunt Transport Services' return on equity of 18.40% beat Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies' return on equity.
91.7% of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.0% of J.B. Hunt Transport Services shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of J.B. Hunt Transport Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services received 239 more outperform votes than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.20% of users gave Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies an outperform vote while only 59.02% of users gave J.B. Hunt Transport Services an outperform vote.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $146.91, suggesting a potential upside of 1.50%. J.B. Hunt Transport Services has a consensus price target of $197.39, suggesting a potential upside of 17.40%. Given J.B. Hunt Transport Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe J.B. Hunt Transport Services is more favorable than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J.B. Hunt Transport Services has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than J.B. Hunt Transport Services. J.B. Hunt Transport Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, J.B. Hunt Transport Services had 33 more articles in the media than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for J.B. Hunt Transport Services and 7 mentions for Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat J.B. Hunt Transport Services' score of 0.04 indicating that Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies and J.B. Hunt Transport Services tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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