Contrasting Freight Technologies (NASDAQ:FRGT) and CryoPort (NASDAQ:CYRX)

CryoPort (NASDAQ:CYRX) and Freight Technologies (NASDAQ:FRGT) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares CryoPort and Freight Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CryoPort	35.57%	-11.07%	-6.30%
Freight Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares CryoPort and Freight Technologies”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CryoPort	$228.38 million	2.21	-$114.76 million	$1.17	8.60
Freight Technologies	$13.73 million	0.15	-$5.60 million	($2.90)	-0.26

Freight Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CryoPort. Freight Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CryoPort, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

CryoPort has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freight Technologies has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

92.9% of CryoPort shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.2% of Freight Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 10.1% of CryoPort shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Freight Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for CryoPort and Freight Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CryoPort	1	1	8	1	2.82
Freight Technologies	1	0	0	0	1.00

CryoPort currently has a consensus target price of $12.83, suggesting a potential upside of 27.57%. Given CryoPort’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe CryoPort is more favorable than Freight Technologies.

Summary

CryoPort beats Freight Technologies on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CryoPort

Cryoport, Inc. provides temperature-controlled supply chain solutions in biopharma/pharma, animal health, and human reproductive medicine markets in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers Cryoport Express Shippers; Cryoport ELITE -80°C Gene Therapy Shipper; Cryoport ELITE Cryosphere Shipper; Cryoport consulting services, including physical, thermal, and shipping qualifications of shipping systems and/or packaging to developing custom packaging solutions; and Cryoport bioservices, such as controlled temperature storage, fulfilment, kit production, secondary packaging, labelling of therapeutic products, and GMP raw materials storage services. It also provides CRYOGENE, an unparalleled solution that offers pre-clinical temperature-controlled biological materials management services comprising specimen storage, processing, collection, and retrieval; CRYOPD, a temperature-controlled logistics solution, which include temperature-controlled packaging and transport solutions from cryogenic temperature to controlled ambient; and IntegriCell services that comprise apheresis/leukapheresis collection, Cryoshuttle transportation, cryo-process optimization and processing services. In addition, the company offers MVE Biological Solutions' Fusion cryogenic system, a self-sustaining cryogenic freezer; MVE Biological Solutions' Vario cryogenic system, a cryogenic freezer system that supports temperatures between -20°C and -150°C; Cryoport Cryoshuttle provides clients with dedicated local transportation support; and Tec4Med. Further, it provides biological specimen cryopreservation storage and maintenance; archiving, monitoring, tracking, receipt, and delivery of samples; frozen biological specimens transportation; and incoming and outgoing biological specimens management; and short-term logistics and engineering consulting services. Cryoport, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee.

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.