RAIL vs. TWIN, CVGI, GBX, TRN, CAT, DE, PCAR, CMI, WAB, and TTC
Should you be buying FreightCar America stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FreightCar America include Twin Disc (TWIN), Commercial Vehicle Group (CVGI), Greenbrier Companies (GBX), Trinity Industries (TRN), Caterpillar (CAT), Deere & Company (DE), PACCAR (PCAR), Cummins (CMI), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), and Toro (TTC). These companies are all part of the "construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks" industry.
FreightCar America (NASDAQ:RAIL) and Twin Disc (NASDAQ:TWIN) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
FreightCar America presently has a consensus price target of $3.50, indicating a potential downside of 5.91%. Given FreightCar America's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FreightCar America is more favorable than Twin Disc.
32.0% of FreightCar America shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Twin Disc shares are held by institutional investors. 28.0% of FreightCar America shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.3% of Twin Disc 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.
FreightCar America has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Twin Disc has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Twin Disc has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FreightCar America. FreightCar America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Twin Disc, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Twin Disc received 23 more outperform votes than FreightCar America when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.82% of users gave Twin Disc an outperform vote while only 52.75% of users gave FreightCar America an outperform vote.
Twin Disc has a net margin of 4.13% compared to FreightCar America's net margin of -6.88%. Twin Disc's return on equity of 8.42% beat FreightCar America's return on equity.
In the previous week, Twin Disc had 7 more articles in the media than FreightCar America. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Twin Disc and 3 mentions for FreightCar America. FreightCar America's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Twin Disc's score of 0.43 indicating that FreightCar America is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Twin Disc beats FreightCar America on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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