Contrasting Freightos (CRGO) & The Competition

Freightos (NASDAQ:CRGO) is one of 49 publicly-traded companies in the “Financial Transaction Services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Freightos to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Freightos	-88.17%	-38.19%	-28.69%
Freightos Competitors	7.48%	8.42%	6.50%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Freightos and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Freightos	0	0	1	0	3.00
Freightos Competitors	428	2506	5504	120	2.62

Freightos currently has a consensus target price of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 53.51%. As a group, “Financial Transaction Services” companies have a potential upside of 10.08%. Given Freightos’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Freightos is more favorable than its peers.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Freightos and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Freightos	$23.78 million	-$22.49 million	-4.96
Freightos Competitors	$4.29 billion	$1.11 billion	-24.51

Freightos’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Freightos. Freightos is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

22.7% of Freightos shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.6% of shares of all “Financial Transaction Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 19.6% of Freightos shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of shares of all “Financial Transaction Services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

Freightos has a beta of 0.08, meaning that its stock price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freightos’ peers have a beta of 1.32, meaning that their average stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Freightos peers beat Freightos on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About Freightos

Freightos Limited, together with its subsidiaries, operates a vendor-neutral booking and payment platform for international freight. It operates WebCargo, a platform for connecting carriers and forwarders; and Freightos.com, a platform for connecting service providers to importers/exporters. The company also offers software-as-a-service solutions, such as WebCargo Air for airline rates and ebookings; WebCargo AcceleRate, a multi-modal rate repository; data services; and WebCargo Airline Control Panel that enables airlines to control bookings and optimize pricing with real-time booking analytics. In addition, it provides digital customs brokerage services. The company is based in Jerusalem, Israel.