MRTN vs. HTLD, WERN, ULH, CVLG, YRCW, YELLQ, ARCB, SNDR, FLNG, and DAC
Should you be buying Marten Transport stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marten Transport include Heartland Express (HTLD), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Universal Logistics (ULH), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), YRC Worldwide (YRCW), Yellow (YELLQ), ArcBest (ARCB), Schneider National (SNDR), FLEX LNG (FLNG), and Danaos (DAC). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Heartland Express (NASDAQ:HTLD) and Marten Transport (NASDAQ:MRTN) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Heartland Express has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marten Transport has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
53.5% of Heartland Express shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.1% of Marten Transport shares are held by institutional investors. 39.6% of Heartland Express shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.9% of Marten Transport shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Heartland Express had 16 more articles in the media than Marten Transport. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Heartland Express and 2 mentions for Marten Transport. Heartland Express' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Marten Transport's score of -0.32 indicating that Marten Transport is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Heartland Express currently has a consensus target price of $13.50, suggesting a potential upside of 30.31%. Marten Transport has a consensus target price of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.77%. Given Heartland Express' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Marten Transport is more favorable than Heartland Express.
Marten Transport has a net margin of 5.31% compared to Marten Transport's net margin of -1.13%. Heartland Express' return on equity of 7.65% beat Marten Transport's return on equity.
Heartland Express pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Marten Transport pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Heartland Express pays out -47.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Marten Transport pays out 33.8% 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.
Marten Transport has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Heartland Express. Heartland Express is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marten Transport, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Heartland Express received 85 more outperform votes than Marten Transport when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.05% of users gave Marten Transport an outperform vote while only 49.09% of users gave Heartland Express an outperform vote.
Summary
Marten Transport beats Heartland Express on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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