AIRT vs. RAIL, SFWL, EDRY, TORO, OMEX, TOPS, PXS, GLBS, BEST, and SRFM
Should you be buying Air T stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Air T include FreightCar America (RAIL), Shengfeng Development (SFWL), EuroDry (EDRY), Toro (TORO), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), Top Ships (TOPS), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), Globus Maritime (GLBS), BEST (BEST), and Surf Air Mobility (SRFM). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Air T (NASDAQ:AIRT) and FreightCar America (NASDAQ:RAIL) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Air T has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FreightCar America. Air T is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FreightCar America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Air T had 99 more articles in the media than FreightCar America. MarketBeat recorded 100 mentions for Air T and 1 mentions for FreightCar America. FreightCar America's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Air T's score of -0.01 indicating that FreightCar America is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Air T has a net margin of -4.91% compared to FreightCar America's net margin of -6.88%. FreightCar America's return on equity of -20.71% beat Air T's return on equity.
FreightCar America received 70 more outperform votes than Air T when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.75% of users gave FreightCar America an outperform vote while only 46.37% of users gave Air T an outperform vote.
FreightCar America has a consensus price target of $3.50, indicating a potential downside of 5.66%. Given FreightCar America's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe FreightCar America is more favorable than Air T.
8.9% of Air T shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of FreightCar America shares are owned by institutional investors. 66.2% of Air T shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.0% of FreightCar America shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Air T has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FreightCar America has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
FreightCar America beats Air T on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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