Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. vs WERNER ENTERPRISES, INC., two Trucking stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where KNX and WERN diverge most: on net margin, KNX reads 0.5% and WERN reads -1.4%; on return on equity, KNX reads 0.5% and WERN reads -3.4%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What KNX's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | KNX | WERN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $64.45 | $32.71 |
| Market cap | $10.5B | $2.0B |
| Sector | Trucking | Trucking |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +12.4% | — |
| P/B | 1.49 | 1.45 |
| P/S | 1.40 | 0.61 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.5 | 9.9 |
| Revenue growth | +1.1% | +9.7% |
| Operating margin | 1.5% | 1.8% |
| Net margin | 0.5% | -1.4% |
| Return on equity | 0.5% | -3.4% |
| Return on assets | 0.3% | -1.5% |
| Return on invested capital | 1.6% | -0.9% |
| FCF yield | 12.4% | 2.7% |
| Dividend yield | 1.1% | 1.7% |
| Debt / equity | 0.25 | 0.58 |
| Current ratio | 0.70 | 1.45 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.19 | 2.63 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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