UNP vs. NSC, CP, CSX, FIP, GE, UPS, FDX, ODFL, DAL, and WAB
Should you be buying Union Pacific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Union Pacific include Norfolk Southern (NSC), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), CSX (CSX), FTAI Infrastructure (FIP), General Electric (GE), United Parcel Service (UPS), FedEx (FDX), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Delta Air Lines (DAL), and Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB).
Norfolk Southern (NYSE:NSC) and Union Pacific (NYSE:UNP) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Norfolk Southern pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Union Pacific pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Norfolk Southern pays out 87.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Union Pacific pays out 49.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Norfolk Southern has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Union Pacific has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years.
75.1% of Norfolk Southern shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Union Pacific shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Norfolk Southern shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Union Pacific 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.
Union Pacific has higher revenue and earnings than Norfolk Southern. Union Pacific is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Norfolk Southern, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Norfolk Southern currently has a consensus target price of $261.78, suggesting a potential upside of 16.45%. Union Pacific has a consensus target price of $259.61, suggesting a potential upside of 11.51%. Given Union Pacific's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Norfolk Southern is more favorable than Union Pacific.
Union Pacific has a net margin of 26.52% compared to Union Pacific's net margin of 11.76%. Norfolk Southern's return on equity of 44.34% beat Union Pacific's return on equity.
Union Pacific received 434 more outperform votes than Norfolk Southern when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.21% of users gave Union Pacific an outperform vote while only 57.47% of users gave Norfolk Southern an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Norfolk Southern had 3 more articles in the media than Union Pacific. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Norfolk Southern and 15 mentions for Union Pacific. Union Pacific's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Norfolk Southern's score of 0.70 indicating that Norfolk Southern is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Norfolk Southern has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Union Pacific has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Union Pacific beats Norfolk Southern on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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