SAIA vs. KNX, LSTR, JBHT, WERN, MRTN, ULH, HTLD, ODFL, SNDR, and ARCB
Should you be buying Saia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saia include Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Landstar System (LSTR), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Marten Transport (MRTN), Universal Logistics (ULH), Heartland Express (HTLD), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Schneider National (SNDR), and ArcBest (ARCB). These companies are all part of the "trucking, except local" industry.
Saia (NASDAQ:SAIA) and Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE:KNX) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
88.8% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Saia shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Knight-Swift Transportation shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Saia has a net margin of 12.42% compared to Knight-Swift Transportation's net margin of 1.50%. Saia's return on equity of 19.53% beat Knight-Swift Transportation's return on equity.
Saia currently has a consensus price target of $497.22, indicating a potential upside of 24.57%. Knight-Swift Transportation has a consensus price target of $57.38, indicating a potential upside of 16.78%. Given Saia's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Saia is more favorable than Knight-Swift Transportation.
Saia has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Knight-Swift Transportation has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Knight-Swift Transportation received 304 more outperform votes than Saia when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.37% of users gave Knight-Swift Transportation an outperform vote while only 59.51% of users gave Saia an outperform vote.
Saia has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Knight-Swift Transportation. Saia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Knight-Swift Transportation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Knight-Swift Transportation had 1 more articles in the media than Saia. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Knight-Swift Transportation and 11 mentions for Saia. Saia's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Knight-Swift Transportation's score of 0.37 indicating that Saia is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Saia beats Knight-Swift Transportation on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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