Yellow (YELL) Competitors

KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP) and Yellow (NASDAQ:YELL) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, KNOP or YELL?

Yellow has higher revenue and earnings than KNOT Offshore Partners. KNOT Offshore Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yellow, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
KNOT Offshore Partners	$290.72M	0.70	-$33.57M	-$0.43	-13.83
Yellow	$4.85B	0.01	$21.80M	-$1.55	-0.58

Does the media prefer KNOP or YELL?

In the previous week, KNOT Offshore Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Yellow'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
KNOT Offshore Partners	Neutral
Yellow	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community favor KNOP or YELL?

KNOT Offshore Partners received 312 more outperform votes than Yellow when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.33% of users gave KNOT Offshore Partners an outperform vote while only 18.18% of users gave Yellow an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
KNOT Offshore Partners	Outperform Votes 316 63.33%	Underperform Votes 183 36.67%
Yellow	Outperform Votes 4 18.18%	Underperform Votes 18 81.82%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of KNOP or YELL?

26.8% of KNOT Offshore Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.7% of Yellow shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Yellow shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk and volatility, KNOP or YELL?

KNOT Offshore Partners has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yellow has a beta of 2.79, meaning that its stock price is 179% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is KNOP or YELL more profitable?

Yellow has a net margin of -1.65% compared to KNOT Offshore Partners' net margin of -4.82%. KNOT Offshore Partners' return on equity of -0.29% beat Yellow's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
KNOT Offshore Partners	-4.82%	-0.29%	-0.10%
Yellow	-1.65%	-6.10%	-3.54%

Summary

Yellow beats KNOT Offshore Partners on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.