ODFL vs. JBHT, SAIA, RYAAY, NSC, DAL, WAB, FDX, CSX, UAL, and LUV
Should you be buying Old Dominion Freight Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Old Dominion Freight Line include J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Saia (SAIA), Ryanair (RYAAY), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), FedEx (FDX), CSX (CSX), United Airlines (UAL), and Southwest Airlines (LUV). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL) and J.B. Hunt Transport Services (NASDAQ:JBHT) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Old Dominion Freight Line presently has a consensus target price of $210.97, suggesting a potential upside of 15.65%. J.B. Hunt Transport Services has a consensus target price of $194.24, suggesting a potential upside of 19.89%. Given J.B. Hunt Transport Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe J.B. Hunt Transport Services is more favorable than Old Dominion Freight Line.
77.8% of Old Dominion Freight Line shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.0% of J.B. Hunt Transport Services shares are held by institutional investors. 10.4% of Old Dominion Freight Line shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of J.B. Hunt Transport Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Old Dominion Freight Line has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J.B. Hunt Transport Services has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services received 169 more outperform votes than Old Dominion Freight Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.03% of users gave J.B. Hunt Transport Services an outperform vote while only 54.77% of users gave Old Dominion Freight Line an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Old Dominion Freight Line had 26 more articles in the media than J.B. Hunt Transport Services. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Old Dominion Freight Line and 9 mentions for J.B. Hunt Transport Services. J.B. Hunt Transport Services' average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Old Dominion Freight Line's score of 0.10 indicating that J.B. Hunt Transport Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Old Dominion Freight Line has a net margin of 21.19% compared to J.B. Hunt Transport Services' net margin of 5.25%. Old Dominion Freight Line's return on equity of 30.12% beat J.B. Hunt Transport Services' return on equity.
Old Dominion Freight Line pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. J.B. Hunt Transport Services pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Old Dominion Freight Line pays out 18.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J.B. Hunt Transport Services pays out 27.3% 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.
Old Dominion Freight Line has higher earnings, but lower revenue than J.B. Hunt Transport Services. J.B. Hunt Transport Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Old Dominion Freight Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Old Dominion Freight Line and J.B. Hunt Transport Services tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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