Analyzing Freight Technologies (NASDAQ:FRGT) and Sinotrans (OTCMKTS:SNOTF)

Sinotrans (OTCMKTS:SNOTF) and Freight Technologies (NASDAQ:FRGT) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, risk and valuation.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sinotrans	N/A	N/A	N/A
Freight Technologies	-60.49%	-95.48%	-45.86%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Sinotrans and Freight Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sinotrans	0	0	0	0	0.00
Freight Technologies	1	0	0	0	1.00

Institutional & Insider Ownership

17.8% of Sinotrans shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.2% of Freight Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 9.0% of Freight Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Sinotrans and Freight Technologies”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sinotrans	N/A	N/A	N/A	$0.24	2.65
Freight Technologies	$13.06 million	0.06	-$7.90 million	($87.25)	-0.02

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

Summary

Sinotrans beats Freight Technologies on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.