U-Haul (NYSE:UHAL) and Freight Technologies (NASDAQ:FRGT) Critical Survey

Freight Technologies (NASDAQ:FRGT) and U-Haul (NYSE:UHAL) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Freight Technologies and U-Haul, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Freight Technologies	1	0	0	0	1.00
U-Haul	1	0	1	1	2.67

U-Haul has a consensus price target of $85.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.59%. Given U-Haul’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe U-Haul is more favorable than Freight Technologies.

Risk and Volatility

Freight Technologies has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U-Haul has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Freight Technologies and U-Haul”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Freight Technologies	$13.06 million	0.14	-$7.90 million	($87.25)	-0.04
U-Haul	$6.04 billion	2.33	$83.13 million	$0.24	298.65

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.

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	1.38%	1.06%	0.39%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

6.2% of Freight Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.6% of U-Haul shares are held by institutional investors. 9.0% of Freight Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 43.8% of U-Haul shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

U-Haul beats Freight Technologies on 14 of the 15 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, 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 2,065 company operated retail moving stores and 20,100 independent U-Haul dealers. As of March 31, 2020, it had a rental fleet of approximately 176,000 trucks, 127,000 trailers, and 41,000 towing devices; and 1,745 self-storage locations with approximately 774,000 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.