Freight Technologies (NASDAQ:FRGT – Get Free Report) and U-Haul (NASDAQ:UHALB – Get Free Report) are both transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Profitability
This table compares Freight Technologies and U-Haul’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Freight Technologies | -60.49% | -95.48% | -45.86% |
| U-Haul | 2.14% | 1.64% | 0.61% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
6.2% of Freight Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.7% of U-Haul shares are held by institutional investors. 9.0% of Freight Technologies shares are held 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.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Freight Technologies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| U-Haul | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Freight Technologies and U-Haul”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Freight Technologies | $13.06 million | 0.16 | -$7.90 million | ($17.45) | -0.21 |
| U-Haul | $5.83 billion | 1.39 | $367.09 million | $0.48 | 95.81 |
U-Haul has higher revenue and earnings than Freight Technologies. Freight Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U-Haul, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Freight Technologies has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U-Haul has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
U-Haul beats Freight Technologies on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About U-Haul
AMERCO operates as a do-it-yourself moving and storage operator for household and commercial goods in the United States and Canada. The company's Moving and Storage segment rents trucks, trailers, portable moving and storage units, specialty rental items, and self-storage spaces primarily to the household movers; and sells moving supplies, towing accessories, and propane. It also provides uhaul.com, an online marketplace that connects consumers to independent Moving Help service providers and independent self-storage affiliates; auto transport and tow dolly options to transport vehicles; and specialty boxes for dishes, computers, flat screen television, and sensitive electronic equipment, as well as tapes, security locks, and packing supplies. This segment rents its products and services through a network of approximately 2,100 company operated retail moving stores and 21,100 independent U-Haul dealers. As of March 31, 2022, it had a rental fleet of approximately 186,000 trucks, 128,000 trailers, and 46,000 towing devices; and 1,844 self-storage locations with approximately 876,000 rentable storage units. The company's Property and Casualty Insurance segment offers loss adjusting and claims handling services. It also provides moving and storage protection packages, such as Safemove and Safetow packages, which offer moving and towing customers with a damage waiver, cargo protection, and medical and life insurance coverage; Safestor that protects storage customers from loss on their goods in storage; Safestor Mobile, which protects customers stored belongings; and Safemove Plus, which provides rental customers with a layer of primary liability protection. The company's Life Insurance segment provides life and health insurance products primarily to the senior market through the direct writing and reinsuring of life insurance, medicare supplement, and annuity policies. AMERCO was founded in 1945 and is based in Reno, Nevada.
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