ARCB vs. KNX, LSTR, SNDR, WERN, MRTN, ULH, HTLD, CVLG, YELLQ, and PTSI
Should you be buying ArcBest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ArcBest include Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Landstar System (LSTR), Schneider National (SNDR), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Marten Transport (MRTN), Universal Logistics (ULH), Heartland Express (HTLD), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Yellow (YELLQ), and P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI). These companies are all part of the "trucking, except local" industry.
Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE:KNX) and ArcBest (NASDAQ:ARCB) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
Knight-Swift Transportation has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ArcBest has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
88.8% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of ArcBest shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of ArcBest shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Knight-Swift Transportation currently has a consensus target price of $57.38, suggesting a potential upside of 18.83%. ArcBest has a consensus target price of $142.69, suggesting a potential upside of 35.23%. Given Knight-Swift Transportation's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ArcBest is more favorable than Knight-Swift Transportation.
ArcBest has a net margin of 2.80% compared to ArcBest's net margin of 1.50%. Knight-Swift Transportation's return on equity of 15.27% beat ArcBest's return on equity.
Knight-Swift Transportation received 335 more outperform votes than ArcBest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.37% of users gave Knight-Swift Transportation an outperform vote while only 53.24% of users gave ArcBest an outperform vote.
Knight-Swift Transportation pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. ArcBest pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Knight-Swift Transportation pays out 95.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ArcBest pays out 9.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Knight-Swift Transportation has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and ArcBest has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Knight-Swift Transportation is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Knight-Swift Transportation has higher revenue and earnings than ArcBest. ArcBest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Knight-Swift Transportation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ArcBest had 3 more articles in the media than Knight-Swift Transportation. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for ArcBest and 3 mentions for Knight-Swift Transportation. ArcBest's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Knight-Swift Transportation's score of 1.06 indicating that Knight-Swift Transportation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Knight-Swift Transportation beats ArcBest on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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