WAB vs. RYAAY, DAL, ODFL, UAL, JBHT, EXPD, LUV, ZTO, XPO, and UHAL
Should you be buying Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies include Ryanair (RYAAY), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), United Airlines (UAL), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), Southwest Airlines (LUV), ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), XPO (XPO), and U-Haul (UHAL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Ryanair (NASDAQ:RYAAY) and Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (NYSE:WAB) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
In the previous week, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies had 1 more articles in the media than Ryanair. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies and 7 mentions for Ryanair. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Ryanair's score of 0.76 indicating that Ryanair is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ryanair has higher revenue and earnings than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies. Ryanair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ryanair has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ryanair pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Ryanair pays out 9.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies pays out 15.6% 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. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Ryanair is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
43.7% of Ryanair shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies shares are owned 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.
Ryanair currently has a consensus target price of $158.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.26%. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has a consensus target price of $156.18, suggesting a potential downside of 5.69%. Given Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ryanair is more favorable than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies.
Ryanair has a net margin of 15.64% compared to Ryanair's net margin of 9.20%. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies' return on equity of 29.39% beat Ryanair's return on equity.
Ryanair received 120 more outperform votes than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.86% of users gave Ryanair an outperform vote while only 66.24% of users gave Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
Ryanair beats Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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