FWRD vs. PTSI, YELLQ, PANL, WLFC, SMHI, DSX, HSHP, FLYX, CPLP, and OSG
Should you be buying Forward Air stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Forward Air include P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Yellow (YELLQ), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Diana Shipping (DSX), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), flyExclusive (FLYX), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), and Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
P.A.M. Transportation Services (NASDAQ:PTSI) and Forward Air (NASDAQ:FWRD) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Forward Air received 152 more outperform votes than P.A.M. Transportation Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.40% of users gave P.A.M. Transportation Services an outperform vote while only 54.61% of users gave Forward Air an outperform vote.
22.1% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Forward Air shares are held by institutional investors. 68.6% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Forward Air shares are held by 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.
P.A.M. Transportation Services presently has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.13%. Forward Air has a consensus target price of $76.43, indicating a potential upside of 435.21%. Given P.A.M. Transportation Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Forward Air is more favorable than P.A.M. Transportation Services.
Forward Air has higher revenue and earnings than P.A.M. Transportation Services. Forward Air is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than P.A.M. Transportation Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Forward Air has a net margin of 4.08% compared to Forward Air's net margin of 1.75%. P.A.M. Transportation Services' return on equity of 5.37% beat Forward Air's return on equity.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forward Air has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Forward Air had 2 more articles in the media than P.A.M. Transportation Services. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Forward Air and 0 mentions for P.A.M. Transportation Services. Forward Air's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat P.A.M. Transportation Services' score of -0.22 indicating that P.A.M. Transportation Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Forward Air beats P.A.M. Transportation Services on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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