CVTI vs. HTLD, CVLG, YELLQ, PTSI, ULH, MRTN, WERN, ARCB, TNP, and CYRX
Should you be buying Covenant Transportation Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Covenant Transportation Group include Heartland Express (HTLD), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Yellow (YELLQ), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Universal Logistics (ULH), Marten Transport (MRTN), Werner Enterprises (WERN), ArcBest (ARCB), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), and Cryoport (CYRX). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Covenant Transportation Group (NASDAQ:CVTI) and Heartland Express (NASDAQ:HTLD) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
Heartland Express has higher revenue and earnings than Covenant Transportation Group. Heartland Express is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Covenant Transportation Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Covenant Transportation Group has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heartland Express has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
53.6% of Covenant Transportation Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.5% of Heartland Express shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.5% of Covenant Transportation Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.8% of Heartland Express 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, Heartland Express had 25 more articles in the media than Covenant Transportation Group. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Heartland Express and 0 mentions for Covenant Transportation Group. Heartland Express' average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Covenant Transportation Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Heartland Express is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Heartland Express has a consensus price target of $13.25, suggesting a potential upside of 21.56%. Given Heartland Express' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Heartland Express is more favorable than Covenant Transportation Group.
Covenant Transportation Group has a net margin of 0.21% compared to Heartland Express' net margin of -1.13%. Covenant Transportation Group's return on equity of 1.54% beat Heartland Express' return on equity.
Heartland Express received 74 more outperform votes than Covenant Transportation Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.15% of users gave Covenant Transportation Group an outperform vote while only 49.03% of users gave Heartland Express an outperform vote.
Summary
Covenant Transportation Group beats Heartland Express on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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