CSX vs. KSU, UNP, CNI, NSC, GE, UPS, CP, FDX, ODFL, and DAL
Should you be buying CSX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CSX include Kansas City Southern (KSU), Union Pacific (UNP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), Norfolk Southern (NSC), General Electric (GE), United Parcel Service (UPS), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), FedEx (FDX), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), and Delta Air Lines (DAL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU) and CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Kansas City Southern has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSX has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CSX has a consensus target price of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.59%. Given Kansas City Southern's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CSX is more favorable than Kansas City Southern.
Kansas City Southern pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Kansas City Southern pays out 211.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CSX pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CSX has raised its dividend for 20 consecutive years. CSX is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
CSX has a net margin of 24.75% compared to CSX's net margin of 3.33%. Kansas City Southern's return on equity of 29.58% beat CSX's return on equity.
Kansas City Southern received 131 more outperform votes than CSX when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.47% of users gave CSX an outperform vote while only 52.56% of users gave Kansas City Southern an outperform vote.
79.7% of Kansas City Southern shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of CSX shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Kansas City Southern shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of CSX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, CSX had 18 more articles in the media than Kansas City Southern. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for CSX and 2 mentions for Kansas City Southern. Kansas City Southern's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat CSX's score of -0.18 indicating that CSX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CSX has higher revenue and earnings than Kansas City Southern. CSX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kansas City Southern, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CSX beats Kansas City Southern on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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