PTSI vs. YELLQ, YRCW, CVLG, HTLD, ULH, MRTN, FWRD, PANL, SMHI, and DSX
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), Marten Transport (MRTN), Forward Air (FWRD), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), and Diana Shipping (DSX). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Yellow (NASDAQ:YELLQ) and P.A.M. Transportation Services (NASDAQ:PTSI) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, profitability, dividends, earnings and media sentiment.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.13%. Given Yellow's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe P.A.M. Transportation Services is more favorable than Yellow.
P.A.M. Transportation Services has a net margin of 1.75% compared to P.A.M. Transportation Services' net margin of 0.00%. Yellow's return on equity of 4.29% beat P.A.M. Transportation Services' return on equity.
P.A.M. Transportation Services received 180 more outperform votes than Yellow when rated by MarketBeat users.
5.0% of Yellow shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.1% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Yellow shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 68.6% of P.A.M. Transportation Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Yellow has a beta of 2.76, indicating that its share price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, P.A.M. Transportation Services has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
In the previous week, Yellow had 1 more articles in the media than P.A.M. Transportation Services. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Yellow and 0 mentions for P.A.M. Transportation Services. Yellow's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat P.A.M. Transportation Services' score of 0.00 indicating that P.A.M. Transportation Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
P.A.M. Transportation Services beats Yellow on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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