ZTO vs. TFII, UHAL, UAL, XPO, ASR, SAIA, AAL, KNX, PAC, and CHRW
Should you be buying ZTO Express (Cayman) stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ZTO Express (Cayman) include TFI International (TFII), U-Haul (UHAL), United Airlines (UAL), XPO (XPO), Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S. A. B. de C. V. (ASR), Saia (SAIA), American Airlines Group (AAL), Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (PAC), and C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
TFI International (NYSE:TFII) and ZTO Express (Cayman) (NYSE:ZTO) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
73.3% of TFI International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of ZTO Express (Cayman) shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of TFI International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of ZTO Express (Cayman) shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
TFI International pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. ZTO Express (Cayman) pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. TFI International pays out 27.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ZTO Express (Cayman) pays out 41.2% 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. TFI International has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and ZTO Express (Cayman) has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
TFI International presently has a consensus price target of $159.83, suggesting a potential upside of 10.12%. ZTO Express (Cayman) has a consensus price target of $32.00, suggesting a potential upside of 59.12%. Given TFI International's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ZTO Express (Cayman) is more favorable than TFI International.
TFI International has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ZTO Express (Cayman) has a beta of -0.04, suggesting that its share price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TFI International and TFI International both had 7 articles in the media. TFI International's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat ZTO Express (Cayman)'s score of 0.49 indicating that ZTO Express (Cayman) is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ZTO Express (Cayman) has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TFI International. ZTO Express (Cayman) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TFI International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ZTO Express (Cayman) has a net margin of 22.70% compared to ZTO Express (Cayman)'s net margin of 6.71%. ZTO Express (Cayman)'s return on equity of 20.92% beat TFI International's return on equity.
ZTO Express (Cayman) received 136 more outperform votes than TFI International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.19% of users gave ZTO Express (Cayman) an outperform vote while only 60.89% of users gave TFI International an outperform vote.
Summary
ZTO Express (Cayman) beats TFI International on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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