Dividends
Sinotrans pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Sinotrans pays out 20.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Air Freight & Logistics” companies pay a dividend yield of 2.6% and pay out 51.2% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Sinotrans is clearly a better dividend stock than its competitors, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Sinotrans and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Sinotrans | N/A | N/A | 2.65 |
| Sinotrans Competitors | $12.35 billion | $608.26 million | 14.27 |
Sinotrans’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Sinotrans. Sinotrans is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Sinotrans | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Sinotrans Competitors | -461.09% | -1.84% | -8.34% |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
17.8% of Sinotrans shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of shares of all “Air Freight & Logistics” companies are held by institutional investors. 18.3% of shares of all “Air Freight & Logistics” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Sinotrans beats its competitors on 5 of the 9 factors compared.
About Sinotrans
Sinotrans Limited provides integrated logistics services primarily in the People’s Republic of China. The company operates through three segments: Agency and Related Business, Professional Logistics, and E-commerce. It offers sea freight forwarding, such as space booking, arranging transportation, container delivery and loading, storage, port concentration and dispatch, customs declaration and inspection, distribution, and delivery; air freight forwarding, including pick-up and dispatch, warehousing, packaging, booking and handling, trunk air line freight forwarding, and trucking transit services; rail freight forwarding services; shipping agency services comprising port arrival and departure, documentation, ship supplies, and other ship related services at ports; and storage and yard services, such as storage, container consolidating and devanning, cargo loading and unloading, dispatching and distribution, etc. The company also engages in the e-commerce business consisting of cross-border e-commerce logistics, logistics e-commerce platform, and logistics equipment sharing platform. In addition, it provides integrated logistics solutions, including contract, project, chemical, cold chain, and other logistics services. The company was founded in 1950 and is based in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.
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