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$47.63 +2.49 (+5.52%)
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VIK vs. CP, CNI, CSX, MPLX, RYAAY, BIP, PAA, AAL, NCLH, and TFII

Should you be buying Viking stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viking include Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), CSX (CSX), Mplx (MPLX), Ryanair (RYAAY), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), American Airlines Group (AAL), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), and TFI International (TFII). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.

Viking vs.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (NYSE:CP) and Viking (NYSE:VIK) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a net margin of 24.50% compared to Viking's net margin of -10.97%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity of 8.78% beat Viking's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Canadian Pacific Kansas City24.50% 8.78% 4.73%
Viking -10.97%N/A -1.53%

Canadian Pacific Kansas City received 973 more outperform votes than Viking when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.07% of users gave Viking an outperform vote while only 69.01% of users gave Canadian Pacific Kansas City an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Canadian Pacific Kansas CityOutperform Votes
993
69.01%
Underperform Votes
446
30.99%
VikingOutperform Votes
20
74.07%
Underperform Votes
7
25.93%

Canadian Pacific Kansas City currently has a consensus price target of $92.63, suggesting a potential upside of 23.85%. Viking has a consensus price target of $44.08, suggesting a potential downside of 7.46%. Given Canadian Pacific Kansas City's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than Viking.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Canadian Pacific Kansas City
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80
Viking
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.77

Canadian Pacific Kansas City has higher revenue and earnings than Viking.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Canadian Pacific Kansas City$9.30B7.51$2.91B$2.8026.71
Viking$4.71B4.36-$1.86BN/AN/A

In the previous week, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian Pacific Kansas City both had 21 articles in the media. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Viking's score of 0.48 indicating that Canadian Pacific Kansas City is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Canadian Pacific Kansas City
9 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Viking
5 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

72.2% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Viking shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Canadian Pacific Kansas City beats Viking on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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VIK vs. The Competition

MetricVikingWater transportation IndustryTransportation SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$20.55B$8.21B$322.70B$19.93B
Dividend YieldN/A5.59%4.13%3.71%
P/E RatioN/A25.1218.2641.38
Price / Sales4.363.2066.1116.25
Price / CashN/A6.1712.2019.84
Price / BookN/A4.062.215.76
Net Income-$1.86B$302.59M$573.08M$993.25M
7 Day Performance10.59%1.01%0.41%3.12%
1 Month Performance3.03%10.91%5.57%4.75%
1 Year PerformanceN/A7.41%7.70%18.83%

Viking Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VIK
Viking
2.6165 of 5 stars
$47.63
+5.5%
$44.08
-7.5%
N/A$20.55B$4.71B0.009,500Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
CP
Canadian Pacific Kansas City
4.4193 of 5 stars
$73.72
-1.3%
$93.56
+26.9%
-4.8%$68.81B$14.45B26.3311,800Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
CNI
Canadian National Railway
4.8928 of 5 stars
$100.18
+0.2%
$125.77
+25.5%
-19.5%$63.03B$17.16B16.0524,987Analyst Forecast
CSX
CSX
4.5999 of 5 stars
$31.89
+0.3%
$38.67
+21.3%
-5.3%$61.50B$14.68B17.1522,500Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
MPLX
Mplx
3.7224 of 5 stars
$48.77
+0.9%
$49.89
+2.3%
+38.0%$49.69B$10.74B11.505,810Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
RYAAY
Ryanair
4.1329 of 5 stars
$41.88
-2.5%
$151.00
+260.6%
-67.1%$22.64B$13.56B13.9627,076Ex-Dividend
BIP
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
4.874 of 5 stars
$31.28
-0.8%
$40.20
+28.5%
+0.7%$14.52B$20.57B-82.3252,000Short Interest ↓
PAA
Plains All American Pipeline
1.5795 of 5 stars
$19.01
+0.7%
$20.00
+5.2%
+28.4%$13.38B$50.37B16.974,200
AAL
American Airlines Group
3.7703 of 5 stars
$17.60
-4.2%
$18.42
+4.6%
+33.7%$11.57B$53.61B53.33132,100Analyst Upgrade
Gap Down
NCLH
Norwegian Cruise Line
4.5603 of 5 stars
$25.61
-0.7%
$29.27
+14.3%
+53.1%$11.26B$9.36B23.5041,000Analyst Forecast
TFII
TFI International
4.2324 of 5 stars
$133.25
-0.1%
$169.19
+27.0%
+1.9%$11.25B$8.29B24.2325,123

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This page (NYSE:VIK) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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