CSX vs. CP, CNI, NSC, UNP, FDX, ODFL, DAL, RYAAY, WAB, and UAL
Should you be buying CSX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CSX include Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Union Pacific (UNP), FedEx (FDX), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Ryanair (RYAAY), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), and United Airlines (UAL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (NYSE:CP) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
CSX has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. CSX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Pacific Kansas City, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CSX had 10 more articles in the media than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for CSX and 13 mentions for Canadian Pacific Kansas City. CSX's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's score of 0.23 indicating that CSX is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. CSX pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays out 17.9% 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.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a net margin of 28.27% compared to CSX's net margin of 24.75%. CSX's return on equity of 29.58% beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity.
CSX currently has a consensus price target of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.90%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a consensus price target of $96.42, indicating a potential upside of 18.64%. Given Canadian Pacific Kansas City's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than CSX.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City received 451 more outperform votes than CSX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.29% of users gave Canadian Pacific Kansas City an outperform vote while only 62.47% of users gave CSX an outperform vote.
73.6% of CSX shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of CSX shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CSX has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CSX beats Canadian Pacific Kansas City on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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