FDX vs. CSX, NSC, CP, CNI, ODFL, DAL, RYAAY, WAB, UAL, and JBHT
Should you be buying FedEx stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FedEx include CSX (CSX), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Ryanair (RYAAY), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), United Airlines (UAL), and J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) and FedEx (NYSE:FDX) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
CSX has a net margin of 24.75% compared to CSX's net margin of 5.02%. FedEx's return on equity of 29.58% beat CSX's return on equity.
73.6% of CSX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.5% of FedEx shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of CSX shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of FedEx shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. FedEx pays an annual dividend of $5.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. CSX pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FedEx pays out 29.1% 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. CSX has raised its dividend for 20 consecutive years and FedEx has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
CSX has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FedEx has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, FedEx had 3 more articles in the media than CSX. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for FedEx and 20 mentions for CSX. CSX's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat FedEx's score of 0.27 indicating that FedEx is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FedEx received 1054 more outperform votes than CSX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.16% of users gave FedEx an outperform vote while only 62.47% of users gave CSX an outperform vote.
FedEx has higher revenue and earnings than CSX. FedEx is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CSX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CSX currently has a consensus price target of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.74%. FedEx has a consensus price target of $301.33, suggesting a potential upside of 18.27%. Given CSX's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe FedEx is more favorable than CSX.
Summary
FedEx beats CSX on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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