FWRD vs. ATSG, PKOH, ECHO, BCO, UPS, FDX, EXPD, XPO, CHRW, and HUBG
Should you be buying Forward Air stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Forward Air include Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), Park-Ohio (PKOH), Echo Global Logistics (ECHO), Brink's (BCO), United Parcel Service (UPS), FedEx (FDX), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), XPO (XPO), C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW), and Hub Group (HUBG).
Air Transport Services Group (NASDAQ:ATSG) and Forward Air (NASDAQ:FWRD) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Air Transport Services Group presently has a consensus price target of $21.83, indicating a potential upside of 61.73%. Forward Air has a consensus price target of $76.43, indicating a potential upside of 354.93%. Given Air Transport Services Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Forward Air is more favorable than Air Transport Services Group.
Air Transport Services Group has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forward Air has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Forward Air received 53 more outperform votes than Air Transport Services Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.52% of users gave Forward Air an outperform vote while only 53.24% of users gave Air Transport Services Group an outperform vote.
Forward Air has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Air Transport Services Group. Forward Air is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Air Transport Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Forward Air has a net margin of 4.08% compared to Forward Air's net margin of 2.37%. Forward Air's return on equity of 6.61% beat Air Transport Services Group's return on equity.
91.8% of Air Transport Services Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Forward Air shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Air Transport Services Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Forward Air shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Forward Air had 2 more articles in the media than Air Transport Services Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Forward Air and 11 mentions for Air Transport Services Group. Forward Air's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Air Transport Services Group's score of 0.61 indicating that Air Transport Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Forward Air beats Air Transport Services Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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