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YRC Worldwide (YRCW) Competitors

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YRCW vs. YELLQ, ODFL, JBHT, SAIA, KNX, LSTR, SNDR, WERN, ARCB, and MRTN

Should you be buying YRC Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of YRC Worldwide include Yellow (YELLQ), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Saia (SAIA), Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Landstar System (LSTR), Schneider National (SNDR), Werner Enterprises (WERN), ArcBest (ARCB), and Marten Transport (MRTN). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.

YRC Worldwide vs.

Yellow (NASDAQ:YELLQ) and YRC Worldwide (NASDAQ:YRCW) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

5.0% of Yellow shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.1% of YRC Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Yellow shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of YRC Worldwide shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Yellow had 1 more articles in the media than YRC Worldwide. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Yellow and 0 mentions for YRC Worldwide. Yellow's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat YRC Worldwide's score of 0.00 indicating that Yellow is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Yellow Neutral
YRC Worldwide Neutral

Yellow has a net margin of 0.00% compared to YRC Worldwide's net margin of -1.40%.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
YellowN/A N/A N/A
YRC Worldwide -1.40%N/A -4.45%

Yellow has higher revenue and earnings than YRC Worldwide.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Yellow$5.24B0.01$21.80MN/AN/A
YRC Worldwide$4.87B0.01-$104M-$2.44-0.39

YRC Worldwide received 316 more outperform votes than Yellow when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
YellowN/AN/A
YRC WorldwideOutperform Votes
316
67.38%
Underperform Votes
153
32.62%

Yellow has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, YRC Worldwide has a beta of 3.32, indicating that its share price is 232% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Yellow beats YRC Worldwide on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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YRCW vs. The Competition

MetricYRC WorldwideTrucking, Except Local IndustryTransportation SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$50.62M$6.04B$295.78B$8.07B
Dividend YieldN/A1.17%4.51%4.04%
P/E Ratio-0.5026.2412.1919.02
Price / Sales0.011.25209.03117.68
Price / Cash0.7110.0711.6934.64
Price / Book-0.082.531.894.24
Net Income-$104M$207.92M$548.50M$246.71M

YRC Worldwide Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
YRCW
YRC Worldwide
N/A$0.95
flat
N/A-83.3%$50.62M$4.87B-0.5029,000Gap Down
YELLQ
Yellow
N/A$0.95
+18.8%
N/A-83.5%$49.90M$5.24B0.0030,000
ODFL
Old Dominion Freight Line
3.5171 of 5 stars
$177.97
-0.9%
$201.74
+13.4%
-22.8%$37.83B$5.81B32.4822,902Analyst Forecast
JBHT
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
4.4887 of 5 stars
$160.21
-2.0%
$189.84
+18.5%
-23.1%$16.02B$12.09B28.818,756Insider Trade
Short Interest ↑
SAIA
Saia
3.343 of 5 stars
$366.60
-2.5%
$526.39
+43.6%
-37.6%$9.76B$3.21B27.1414,000Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
KNX
Knight-Swift Transportation
3.9899 of 5 stars
$46.89
-0.5%
$59.41
+26.7%
-18.2%$7.59B$7.41B64.2334,800Analyst Upgrade
LSTR
Landstar System
3.6642 of 5 stars
$160.63
-0.8%
$170.40
+6.1%
-19.1%$5.67B$4.82B29.101,468Positive News
SNDR
Schneider National
4.7922 of 5 stars
$25.43
-0.3%
$30.85
+21.3%
+4.6%$4.46B$5.29B39.1217,300News Coverage
Positive News
WERN
Werner Enterprises
3.4711 of 5 stars
$32.14
-0.2%
$37.00
+15.1%
-22.1%$1.99B$3.03B58.449,929Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
ARCB
ArcBest
4.5345 of 5 stars
$74.19
-1.4%
$118.91
+60.3%
-46.1%$1.72B$4.18B10.1215,700Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
MRTN
Marten Transport
3.8673 of 5 stars
$14.35
-0.1%
$19.33
+34.7%
-25.8%$1.17B$963.71M42.214,213Short Interest ↑
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This page (NASDAQ:YRCW) was last updated on 3/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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