TFII vs. ZTO, SAIA, ASR, XPO, AAL, CHRW, UHAL, PAC, KNX, and KEX
Should you be buying TFI International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TFI International include ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), Saia (SAIA), Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S. A. B. de C. V. (ASR), XPO (XPO), American Airlines Group (AAL), C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW), U-Haul (UHAL), Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (PAC), Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), and Kirby (KEX). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
ZTO Express (Cayman) (NYSE:ZTO) and TFI International (NYSE:TFII) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
ZTO Express (Cayman) pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. TFI International pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. ZTO Express (Cayman) pays out 43.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TFI International pays out 28.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. TFI International has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
ZTO Express (Cayman) has higher revenue and earnings than TFI International. ZTO Express (Cayman) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TFI International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ZTO Express (Cayman) has a beta of -0.05, suggesting that its stock price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TFI International has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ZTO Express (Cayman) presently has a consensus target price of $30.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.00%. TFI International has a consensus target price of $160.78, indicating a potential upside of 20.69%. Given TFI International's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe ZTO Express (Cayman) is more favorable than TFI International.
ZTO Express (Cayman) has a net margin of 21.57% compared to ZTO Express (Cayman)'s net margin of 6.44%. ZTO Express (Cayman)'s return on equity of 20.39% beat TFI International's return on equity.
41.7% of ZTO Express (Cayman) shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.3% of TFI International shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.3% of ZTO Express (Cayman) shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of TFI International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, ZTO Express (Cayman) had 9 more articles in the media than TFI International. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for ZTO Express (Cayman) and 1 mentions for TFI International. ZTO Express (Cayman)'s average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat TFI International's score of 0.81 indicating that TFI International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ZTO Express (Cayman) received 134 more outperform votes than TFI International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.19% of users gave ZTO Express (Cayman) an outperform vote while only 60.70% of users gave TFI International an outperform vote.
Summary
ZTO Express (Cayman) beats TFI International on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TFII and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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