YRCW vs. YELLQ, PTSI, CVLG, HTLD, ULH, MRTN, OSG, CLCO, PWFL, and SAVE
Should you be buying YRC Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of YRC Worldwide include Yellow (YELLQ), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Heartland Express (HTLD), Universal Logistics (ULH), Marten Transport (MRTN), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Cool (CLCO), PowerFleet (PWFL), and Spirit Airlines (SAVE). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
YRC Worldwide (NASDAQ:YRCW) and Yellow (NASDAQ:YELLQ) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Yellow had 1 more articles in the media than YRC Worldwide. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Yellow and 0 mentions for YRC Worldwide. Yellow's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat YRC Worldwide's score of 0.00 indicating that Yellow is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Yellow has a net margin of 0.00% compared to YRC Worldwide's net margin of -1.40%.
YRC Worldwide has a beta of 3.32, meaning that its share price is 232% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yellow has a beta of 2.88, meaning that its share price is 188% more volatile than the S&P 500.
31.1% of YRC Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.0% of Yellow shares are held by institutional investors. 6.4% of YRC Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Yellow 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.
Yellow has higher revenue and earnings than YRC Worldwide. Yellow is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than YRC Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
YRC Worldwide received 316 more outperform votes than Yellow when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Yellow beats YRC Worldwide on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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