SNDR vs. SAIA, KNX, LSTR, ARCB, WERN, MRTN, ULH, HTLD, CVLG, and YELLQ
Should you be buying Schneider National stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Schneider National include Saia (SAIA), Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Landstar System (LSTR), ArcBest (ARCB), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Marten Transport (MRTN), Universal Logistics (ULH), Heartland Express (HTLD), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), and Yellow (YELLQ). These companies are all part of the "trucking, except local" industry.
Schneider National (NYSE:SNDR) and Saia (NASDAQ:SAIA) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.
Schneider National has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saia has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Saia had 11 more articles in the media than Schneider National. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Saia and 3 mentions for Schneider National. Saia's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Schneider National's score of 0.50 indicating that Saia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Schneider National currently has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.66%. Saia has a consensus target price of $494.39, indicating a potential upside of 24.55%. Given Schneider National's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Schneider National is more favorable than Saia.
Saia received 45 more outperform votes than Schneider National when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.73% of users gave Schneider National an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave Saia an outperform vote.
Saia has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Schneider National. Schneider National is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Saia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Saia has a net margin of 12.42% compared to Schneider National's net margin of 2.95%. Saia's return on equity of 19.53% beat Schneider National's return on equity.
28.5% of Schneider National shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.8% of Schneider National shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Saia shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Saia beats Schneider National on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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