CSX vs. ENB, CP, CNI, MPLX, RYAAY, VIK, BIP, PAA, ZTO, and NCLH
Should you be buying CSX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CSX include Enbridge (ENB), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), Mplx (MPLX), Ryanair (RYAAY), Viking (VIK), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
CSX vs.
Enbridge (NYSE:ENB) and CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
CSX has a net margin of 23.95% compared to Enbridge's net margin of 10.04%. CSX's return on equity of 28.15% beat Enbridge's return on equity.
Enbridge received 226 more outperform votes than CSX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.03% of users gave Enbridge an outperform vote while only 63.00% of users gave CSX an outperform vote.
Enbridge has higher revenue and earnings than CSX. CSX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enbridge, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Enbridge currently has a consensus price target of $67.00, suggesting a potential upside of 60.54%. CSX has a consensus price target of $37.16, suggesting a potential upside of 15.04%. Given Enbridge's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Enbridge is more favorable than CSX.
In the previous week, CSX had 1 more articles in the media than Enbridge. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for CSX and 46 mentions for Enbridge. CSX's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Enbridge's score of 0.78 indicating that CSX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Enbridge has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSX has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Enbridge pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Enbridge pays out 155.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CSX pays out 26.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CSX has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years.
54.6% of Enbridge shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of CSX shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Enbridge shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of CSX shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
CSX beats Enbridge on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CSX) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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