CSX vs. CP, CNI, NSC, UNP, FDX, ODFL, DAL, RYAAY, WAB, and UAL
Should you be buying CSX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CSX include Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Union Pacific (UNP), FedEx (FDX), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Ryanair (RYAAY), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), and United Airlines (UAL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (NYSE:CP) and CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays out 17.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CSX pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. CSX has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years. CSX is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City received 451 more outperform votes than CSX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.29% of users gave Canadian Pacific Kansas City an outperform vote while only 62.47% of users gave CSX an outperform vote.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City currently has a consensus target price of $96.42, suggesting a potential upside of 21.88%. CSX has a consensus target price of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.60%. Given CSX's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than CSX.
72.2% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of CSX shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of CSX shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, Canadian Pacific Kansas City had 43 more articles in the media than CSX. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for Canadian Pacific Kansas City and 11 mentions for CSX. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat CSX's score of -0.24 indicating that CSX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a net margin of 28.27% compared to Canadian Pacific Kansas City's net margin of 24.75%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity of 29.58% beat CSX's return on equity.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSX has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CSX has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. CSX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Pacific Kansas City, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CSX beats Canadian Pacific Kansas City on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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