Forward Air (NASDAQ:FWRD – Get Free Report) and Freight Technologies (NASDAQ:FRGT – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and dividends.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
97.0% of Forward Air shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.2% of Freight Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 15.7% of Forward Air shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Freight Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Forward Air and Freight Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Forward Air | $2.50 billion | 0.22 | -$107.80 million | ($8.90) | -1.96 |
| Freight Technologies | $13.06 million | 0.07 | -$7.90 million | ($87.25) | -0.02 |
Freight Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Forward Air. Forward Air is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freight Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Forward Air and Freight Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Forward Air | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2.80 |
| Freight Technologies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Forward Air presently has a consensus price target of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 60.83%. Given Forward Air’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Forward Air is more favorable than Freight Technologies.
Risk & Volatility
Forward Air has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freight Technologies has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Forward Air and Freight Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Forward Air | -11.37% | -19.49% | -0.66% |
| Freight Technologies | -60.49% | -95.48% | -45.86% |
Summary
Forward Air beats Freight Technologies on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Forward Air
Forward Air Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an asset-light freight and logistics company in the United States and Canada. It operates in two segments, Expedited Freight and Intermodal. The Expedited Freight segment provides expedited regional, inter-regional, and national less-than-truckload services; local pick-up and delivery services; and other services, which include shipment consolidation and deconsolidation, warehousing, customs brokerage, and other handling. This segment offers expedited truckload brokerage, dedicated fleet, and high security and temperature-controlled logistics services. The Intermodal segment provides intermodal container drayage services; and contract and container freight station warehouse and handling services. It serves freight forwarders, third-party logistics companies, integrated air cargo carriers and passenger, passenger and cargo airlines, steamship lines, and retailers. Forward Air Corporation was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Greeneville, Tennessee.
About Freight Technologies
Freight Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiary, operates a transportation logistics technology platform for cross-border shipping in the United States and Mexico. Its Fr8App technology platform offers an online portal and a mobile application that provide third-party logistics services to companies in the freight transportation market; a transport management solution for customers to manage their own fleet; and freight brokerage support and customer services based on the platform. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.
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