LSTR vs. KNX, WERN, SAIA, MRTN, ULH, HTLD, JBHT, SNDR, ARCB, and KEX
Should you be buying Landstar System stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Landstar System include Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Saia (SAIA), Marten Transport (MRTN), Universal Logistics (ULH), Heartland Express (HTLD), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Schneider National (SNDR), ArcBest (ARCB), and Kirby (KEX). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE:KNX) and Landstar System (NASDAQ:LSTR) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Knight-Swift Transportation has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Landstar System has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Knight-Swift Transportation pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Landstar System pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Knight-Swift Transportation pays out 95.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Landstar System pays out 20.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Knight-Swift Transportation has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Landstar System has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Knight-Swift Transportation had 1 more articles in the media than Landstar System. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Knight-Swift Transportation and 11 mentions for Landstar System. Landstar System's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Knight-Swift Transportation's score of 0.28 indicating that Knight-Swift Transportation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
88.8% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of Landstar System shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Landstar System shares are owned by 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.
Knight-Swift Transportation currently has a consensus target price of $57.38, suggesting a potential upside of 16.78%. Landstar System has a consensus target price of $183.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.07%. Given Landstar System's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Knight-Swift Transportation is more favorable than Landstar System.
Knight-Swift Transportation received 269 more outperform votes than Landstar System when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.37% of users gave Knight-Swift Transportation an outperform vote while only 52.13% of users gave Landstar System an outperform vote.
Landstar System has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Knight-Swift Transportation. Landstar System is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Knight-Swift Transportation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Landstar System has a net margin of 4.63% compared to Landstar System's net margin of 1.50%. Knight-Swift Transportation's return on equity of 23.11% beat Landstar System's return on equity.
Summary
Knight-Swift Transportation beats Landstar System on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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