Critical Contrast: ETS (ETS) versus Its Peers

ETS (NASDAQ:ETS) is one of 60 public companies in the “Air Freight & Logistics” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare ETS to similar businesses based on the strength of its risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for ETS and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ETS	1	0	0	0	1.00
ETS Competitors	618	1977	2539	105	2.41

As a group, “Air Freight & Logistics” companies have a potential upside of 14.81%. Given ETS’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ETS has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares ETS and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ETS	-157.04%	-30.26%	-29.59%
ETS Competitors	-1,605.68%	-24.13%	-12.59%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

42.6% of shares of all “Air Freight & Logistics” companies are owned by institutional investors. 24.9% of ETS shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.4% of shares of all “Air Freight & Logistics” companies 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares ETS and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
ETS	$2.67 million	-$2.19 million	-5.12
ETS Competitors	$12.04 billion	$591.75 million	8.05

ETS’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than ETS. ETS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

ETS peers beat ETS on 10 of the 12 factors compared.

About ETS

Elite Express Holding Inc. is a holding company which conducts its operations through its wholly owned subsidiary, JAR Transportation Inc. It provides last-mile delivery services, primarily focused on transporting packages from distribution centers to end customers. Elite Express Holding Inc. is based in LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.