Financial Comparison: Sinotrans (SNOTF) and Its Rivals

Institutional & Insider Ownership

17.8% of Sinotrans shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of shares of all “Air Freight & Logistics” companies are held by institutional investors. 18.3% of shares of all “Air Freight & Logistics” companies 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.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sinotrans	N/A	N/A	2.65
Sinotrans Competitors	$12.26 billion	$608.26 million	14.53

Sinotrans’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Sinotrans. Sinotrans 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.

Dividends

Sinotrans pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Sinotrans pays out 20.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Air Freight & Logistics” companies pay a dividend yield of 2.6% and pay out 49.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Sinotrans is clearly a better dividend stock than its peers, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sinotrans	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sinotrans Competitors	-461.09%	-1.84%	-8.34%

Summary

Sinotrans beats its peers on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

About Sinotrans

Sinotrans Limited provides integrated logistics services primarily in the People’s Republic of China. The company operates through three segments: Agency and Related Business, Professional Logistics, and E-commerce. It offers sea freight forwarding, such as space booking, arranging transportation, container delivery and loading, storage, port concentration and dispatch, customs declaration and inspection, distribution, and delivery; air freight forwarding, including pick-up and dispatch, warehousing, packaging, booking and handling, trunk air line freight forwarding, and trucking transit services; rail freight forwarding services; shipping agency services comprising port arrival and departure, documentation, ship supplies, and other ship related services at ports; and storage and yard services, such as storage, container consolidating and devanning, cargo loading and unloading, dispatching and distribution, etc. The company also engages in the e-commerce business consisting of cross-border e-commerce logistics, logistics e-commerce platform, and logistics equipment sharing platform. In addition, it provides integrated logistics solutions, including contract, project, chemical, cold chain, and other logistics services. The company was founded in 1950 and is based in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.