PWFL vs. SB, FWRD, CVLG, YELLQ, CLCO, OSG, SAVE, PTSI, HA, and TK
Should you be buying PowerFleet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PowerFleet include Safe Bulkers (SB), Forward Air (FWRD), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Yellow (YELLQ), Cool (CLCO), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Hawaiian (HA), and Teekay (TK). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Safe Bulkers (NYSE:SB) and PowerFleet (NASDAQ:PWFL) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Safe Bulkers has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PowerFleet has a beta of 1.75, suggesting that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Safe Bulkers has a net margin of 27.85% compared to Safe Bulkers' net margin of -3.86%. PowerFleet's return on equity of 10.29% beat Safe Bulkers' return on equity.
In the previous week, PowerFleet had 18 more articles in the media than Safe Bulkers. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for PowerFleet and 4 mentions for Safe Bulkers. Safe Bulkers' average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat PowerFleet's score of -0.03 indicating that PowerFleet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
21.7% of Safe Bulkers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.4% of PowerFleet shares are held by institutional investors. 40.3% of Safe Bulkers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of PowerFleet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Safe Bulkers received 333 more outperform votes than PowerFleet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.49% of users gave Safe Bulkers an outperform vote while only 40.87% of users gave PowerFleet an outperform vote.
Safe Bulkers has higher revenue and earnings than PowerFleet. PowerFleet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Safe Bulkers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Safe Bulkers currently has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.72%. PowerFleet has a consensus price target of $8.43, indicating a potential upside of 67.23%. Given Safe Bulkers' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PowerFleet is more favorable than Safe Bulkers.
Summary
Safe Bulkers beats PowerFleet on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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