PTSI vs. YELLQ, YRCW, CVLG, HTLD, ULH, HSHP, PANL, DSX, WLFC, and CPLP
Should you be buying P.A.M. Transportation Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of P.A.M. Transportation Services include Yellow (YELLQ), YRC Worldwide (YRCW), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Heartland Express (HTLD), Universal Logistics (ULH), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Diana Shipping (DSX), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), and Capital Product Partners (CPLP). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
P.A.M. Transportation Services (NASDAQ:PTSI) and Yellow (NASDAQ:YELLQ) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, P.A.M. Transportation Services had 2 more articles in the media than Yellow. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for P.A.M. Transportation Services and 1 mentions for Yellow. Yellow's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat P.A.M. Transportation Services' score of 0.43 indicating that Yellow is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a net margin of 1.75% compared to Yellow's net margin of 0.00%. P.A.M. Transportation Services' return on equity of 4.29% beat Yellow's return on equity.
P.A.M. Transportation Services presently has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.95%. Given P.A.M. Transportation Services' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe P.A.M. Transportation Services is more favorable than Yellow.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yellow has a beta of 2.88, indicating that its stock price is 188% more volatile than the S&P 500.
22.1% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.0% of Yellow shares are owned by institutional investors. 68.6% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Yellow shares are owned by company 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.
Yellow has higher revenue and earnings than P.A.M. Transportation Services. Yellow is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than P.A.M. Transportation Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
P.A.M. Transportation Services received 180 more outperform votes than Yellow when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
P.A.M. Transportation Services beats Yellow on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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