BEST vs. SFWL, UPS, ZTO, TFII, MMLP, IMPP, OMEX, TORO, RAIL, and AIRT
Should you be buying BEST stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BEST include Shengfeng Development (SFWL), United Parcel Service (UPS), ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), TFI International (TFII), Martin Midstream Partners (MMLP), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), Toro (TORO), FreightCar America (RAIL), and Air T (AIRT). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Shengfeng Development (NASDAQ:SFWL) and BEST (NYSE:BEST) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
Shengfeng Development has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Shengfeng Development's net margin of -9.85%. BEST's return on equity of 0.00% beat Shengfeng Development's return on equity.
Shengfeng Development has a beta of -4.86, indicating that its share price is 586% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BEST has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
1.1% of Shengfeng Development shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.1% of BEST shares are held by institutional investors. 41.7% of BEST 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.
In the previous week, BEST had 64 more articles in the media than Shengfeng Development. MarketBeat recorded 67 mentions for BEST and 3 mentions for Shengfeng Development. BEST's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Shengfeng Development's score of 1.00 indicating that Shengfeng Development is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shengfeng Development has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BEST.
BEST received 51 more outperform votes than Shengfeng Development when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Shengfeng Development and BEST tied by winning 6 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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