GATX vs. GBTG, GXO, RXO, XPO, HRI, OMAB, CPA, STNG, MATX, and SNDR
Should you be buying GATX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GATX include Global Business Travel Group (GBTG), GXO Logistics (GXO), RXO (RXO), XPO (XPO), Herc (HRI), Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte (OMAB), Copa (CPA), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Matson (MATX), and Schneider National (SNDR). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Global Business Travel Group (NYSE:GBTG) and GATX (NYSE:GATX) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Global Business Travel Group has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GATX has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
GATX received 320 more outperform votes than Global Business Travel Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.71% of users gave GATX an outperform vote while only 53.85% of users gave Global Business Travel Group an outperform vote.
GATX has a net margin of 17.64% compared to GATX's net margin of -2.71%. Global Business Travel Group's return on equity of 11.29% beat GATX's return on equity.
In the previous week, Global Business Travel Group had 12 more articles in the media than GATX. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Global Business Travel Group and 1 mentions for GATX. Global Business Travel Group's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat GATX's score of 0.11 indicating that GATX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Global Business Travel Group currently has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 51.77%. GATX has a consensus target price of $135.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.68%. Given GATX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Global Business Travel Group is more favorable than GATX.
82.5% of Global Business Travel Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of GATX shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Global Business Travel Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of GATX shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
GATX has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Global Business Travel Group. Global Business Travel Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GATX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
GATX beats Global Business Travel Group on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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