GBX vs. TRN, DAC, CMRE, CDLR, LPG, HTZ, MRTN, ULCC, SFL, and DHT
Should you be buying Greenbrier Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greenbrier Companies include Trinity Industries (TRN), Danaos (DAC), Costamare (CMRE), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Dorian LPG (LPG), Hertz Global (HTZ), Marten Transport (MRTN), Frontier Group (ULCC), SFL (SFL), and DHT (DHT). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Trinity Industries (NYSE:TRN) and Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) are both transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
Trinity Industries has a net margin of 3.98% compared to Trinity Industries' net margin of 2.97%. Greenbrier Companies' return on equity of 10.93% beat Trinity Industries' return on equity.
Trinity Industries presently has a consensus price target of $31.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.13%. Greenbrier Companies has a consensus price target of $54.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.02%. Given Trinity Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Greenbrier Companies is more favorable than Trinity Industries.
Trinity Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Greenbrier Companies. Greenbrier Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trinity Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Greenbrier Companies received 28 more outperform votes than Trinity Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.42% of users gave Trinity Industries an outperform vote while only 60.98% of users gave Greenbrier Companies an outperform vote.
86.6% of Trinity Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of Greenbrier Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Trinity Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Greenbrier Companies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Trinity Industries has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greenbrier Companies has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Trinity Industries and Trinity Industries both had 4 articles in the media. Greenbrier Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Trinity Industries' score of 0.42 indicating that Trinity Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Trinity Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Greenbrier Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Trinity Industries pays out 75.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Greenbrier Companies pays out 35.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trinity Industries has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years and Greenbrier Companies has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Trinity Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Trinity Industries beats Greenbrier Companies on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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