ATSG vs. HTLD, DESP, CYRX, NAT, SNCY, GSL, GNK, ULH, VLRS, and VTOL
Should you be buying Air Transport Services Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Air Transport Services Group include Heartland Express (HTLD), Despegar.com (DESP), Cryoport (CYRX), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Universal Logistics (ULH), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), and Bristow Group (VTOL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Heartland Express (NASDAQ:HTLD) and Air Transport Services Group (NASDAQ:ATSG) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Heartland Express currently has a consensus target price of $13.50, suggesting a potential upside of 30.31%. Air Transport Services Group has a consensus target price of $23.33, suggesting a potential upside of 80.74%. Given Heartland Express' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Air Transport Services Group is more favorable than Heartland Express.
Heartland Express has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air Transport Services Group has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
53.5% of Heartland Express shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Air Transport Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. 39.6% of Heartland Express shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Air Transport Services Group shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Heartland Express had 17 more articles in the media than Air Transport Services Group. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Heartland Express and 1 mentions for Air Transport Services Group. Heartland Express' average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Air Transport Services Group's score of -0.32 indicating that Air Transport Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Air Transport Services Group has a net margin of 2.91% compared to Air Transport Services Group's net margin of -1.13%. Heartland Express' return on equity of 7.93% beat Air Transport Services Group's return on equity.
Heartland Express received 74 more outperform votes than Air Transport Services Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.36% of users gave Air Transport Services Group an outperform vote while only 49.09% of users gave Heartland Express an outperform vote.
Air Transport Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than Heartland Express. Heartland Express is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Air Transport Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Air Transport Services Group beats Heartland Express on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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