Grab (NASDAQ:GRAB – Get Free Report) and CSX (NASDAQ:CSX – Get Free Report) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and dividends.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Grab and CSX, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Grab | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2.82 |
| CSX | 1 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 2.65 |
Grab presently has a consensus target price of $6.01, indicating a potential upside of 75.60%. CSX has a consensus target price of $51.31, indicating a potential upside of 3.86%. Given Grab’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Grab is more favorable than CSX.
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Grab | $3.37 billion | 4.16 | $268.00 million | $0.06 | 57.00 |
| CSX | $14.09 billion | 6.50 | $2.89 billion | $1.73 | 28.56 |
CSX has higher revenue and earnings than Grab. CSX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grab, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
55.5% of Grab shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of CSX shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Grab shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of CSX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Risk and Volatility
Grab has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSX has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Grab and CSX’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Grab | 15.97% | 8.83% | 4.92% |
| CSX | 22.21% | 24.98% | 7.61% |
Summary
CSX beats Grab on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Grab
Grab Holdings Limited engages in the provision of superapps in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The company offers its Grab ecosystem, a single platform with superapps for driver- and merchant-partners and consumers, that allows access to mobility, delivery, digital financial services, and enterprise sector offerings. Grab Holdings Limited is headquartered in Singapore.
About CSX
CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based freight transportation services. The company offers rail services; and transportation of intermodal containers and trailers, as well as other transportation services, such as rail-to-truck transfers and bulk commodity operations. It also transports chemicals, agricultural and food products, minerals, automotive, forest products, fertilizers, and metals and equipment; and coal, coke, and iron ore to electricity-generating power plants, steel manufacturers, and industrial plants, as well as exports coal to deep-water port facilities. In addition, the company provides intermodal services through a network of approximately 30 terminals transporting manufactured consumer goods in containers; and drayage services, including the pickup and delivery of intermodal shipments. It serves the automotive industry with distribution centers and storage locations, as well as connects non-rail served customers through transferring products, such as plastics and ethanol from rail to trucks. The company operates approximately 20,000 route mile rail network, which serves various population centers in 26 states east of the Mississippi River, the District of Columbia, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as owns and leases approximately 3,500 locomotives. It serves production and distribution facilities through track connections. CSX Corporation was incorporated in 1978 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
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