XPO Logistics Inc ranks 7th in total Revenue within the transportation industry. Good position especially compared to similar industries.

XPO Logistics Inc. ranks 15th when it comes to income growth rate. It might not look impressive compared to others but company is still realizing income growth rate.

XPO Logistics Liability Asset ratio is 0.8. It shows company is on the higher side of financial risks.

XPO Logistics ranks 31st with 3% ROA. It's not good. It doesn't necessarily mean company is in trouble tough; as large initial investment can result on lower ROA.

XPO Logistics ranks 12th here. 11% of its revenue is absorbed by General Admin cost. Compared to its competitors within the industry they are in a good position. 

XPO Logistics Inc ranks 32nd and has a current ratio of 1.03. It indicates company has an ok position to pay its debt. Seeing the trend will give us more clearer picture that one time current ratio.

This shows the number of companies in USA within transportation industry. Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas and Arkansas are the top 5 where you will find more companies. 

When we see median revenue US transportation companies are performing well in Georgia.

Impressive number of regions are profitable in the transportation industry in US. All states marked in red are profitable and it indicates a good performance.

Transportation industry is quite concentrated in US. Courier companies like Fedex and UPS and Airlines likeAmerican, Delta and United share more of the revenues out of the total. 

China has more concentrated transportation industry when compared to US. This indicates completion is intense in China.

USA companies revenue, operating income and net income are all significantly higher compared to Germany. Other noticeable trend is Germany's profitable industry is consistently higher than USA since 2016.   

USA is showing a good trend in all gross margin, median operating margin and median net margin than Germany. It indicates US companies sales are sufficient to cover their costs. In 2019 the median net margin for both countries is on the decline which can be lower sales or higher costs. 

The trend in inventory days, asset turnover and return on asset for both Germany and USA are almost equal. It indicates companies in both countries operate efficiently. When it comes to cash conversion cycle USA is -6 which indicates US companies will take longer to convert their inventory to cash and cash to inventory.

US current ratio is 1.12, higher than Germany's which is 0.71. It indicates US companies are more able to pay short term obligations. Also USA's liability asset ratio is slightly lower than Germany which indicates lesser assets of US companies are tied with debt.  When it comes to cash flow and cash equivalents, Germany companies are significantly in good financial health than USA.

Revenue for retail industry is twice as high compared to transportation and material industry's revenue.

Material and transportation industry growth rate is negative but retail industry is encouraging.

Most of the comparison between the industries are similar except transportation with high inventory turnover meaning good sales. Retail looks weak here with high admin cost over revenue but with high payable/receivable days it indicates that retail industry has a better creditworthiness. 

UPS and Fedex are the highest in the transport industry but Fedex is below the regression line. CSX Corp, Expeditors and Old Dominion are the smallest. We see airline companies are in the middle.

Fedex and UPS are with the highest revenue and cost. UPS revenue is better while Fedex revenue falls below industry average. United, Delta and American all have almost similar costs but Delta revenue is higher than the others and above average as well. Lufthansa of Germany costs is the same as  United but its revenue falls below industry average.

UPS and Fedex have similar costs but UPS income is more than two fold than Fedex. Norfolk Enterprise and CSX Corp as well, they both have almost the same cost but CSX Corp income is higher. Fedex is way below the industry average which shows that it is not profitable.

Delta, United and American airlines and Lufhansa of Germany has all similar costs but Delta earns the highest profit. United and American are above the industry average compared to Germany which is below average. UPS and Fedex also has the same cost but UPS earns much higher profit while Fedex earns below industry average.

UPS earns the highest income while having lesser asset than Fedex Which indicates good asset utilization. The same goes to CSX Corp, it earns higher income than Norfolk while their total asset is very close. 

Fedex has the highest asset but profit is below the industry average. Lufthansa from Germany also below the industry average. Both are less effective in asset utilization. UPS has lesser asset than American and Delta airline but higher profit which shows effective asset utilization. CSX Corp and Norfolk also earn equal amount of profit as United airline with much less asset which indicated effective asset utilization.

If we see the logistics companies within the transport industry, CSX Corp and Norfolk Corp revenue is similar with most here but they have a much higher operating margin. Kansas City Southern has the same operating margin as Norfolk with much lesser revenue. When we compare these 3 companies  to UPS and Fedex, they make significantly lesser revenue but their operating margin is much much higher.

Expeditors and Old Dominion have the best financial performance. They get a high profit from asset and they have lower liabilities. UPS and Fedex have higher liability and lower return on asset  which indicates financial risk.

UPS ranks 1st and Fedex 2nd in total revenue. They are even higher than the airline industries.

The highest ranking company in operating margin is CSX Corp and Norfolk Corp being 2nd. UPS 8th and Fedex ranks 14th which shows that they are not making much from business operation .

Expeditors ranks 1st and Old Dominion Freight being the 2nd. UPS is on 7th position while Fedex is on 14th which is the lowest from these companies. Although UPS and Fedex ranks 1st on total revenue their rank on operating margin and return on asset is low. They need to work on ways to improve.

The lowest two companies are Fedex and American Airline which indicates lower profit from its capital. The only company with high return on asset is Expeditors.

CSX Corp is the biggest on 3 dimensions while Fedex is the 2nd scoring big on 2 dimensions. XPO Logistics, Old Dominion and Expeditors are the smallest in all dimensions but XPO Logistics is a little better than the other two.

CSX Corp again is the biggest on 3 dimensions of profitability. Old Dominion comes 2nd having the highest ROA of all. Fedex is the least from all.

Expeditors has the highest ROA which makes the company attractive to investors while Fedex is the least of all.

CSX Corp performs best in most of the key indicators except a negative revenue growth. Whereas Fedex, performs the least on all the key indicators  except the current ratio.

XPO Logistics performance has good profitability, financial health, growth and operational efficiency. It even scores high on liability asset ratio and on admin cost over revenue. It indicates that the company has a good efficiency and lesser financial risk.

Fedex has more than 3 fold total revenue than its competitors and XPO Logistics comes next highest. But when it comes to operating income, Fedex has a declining one especially from 2018; its a sharp decline. XPO whereas, has lower but steady growth.

CSX Corp gross margin and operating margin shows a steady slow growth since 2018. It shows improved management of its cost. After a sharp decline on 2017, the steadiness of its net margin and return on asset since 2018 indicates improvement. XPO Logistics is low in all profitability markers. But the fact that there is no decline and that it remains steady is a good sign.

All companies except Old Dominion are in good increasing position when it comes to current ratio. Expeditors has the best and CSX Corp has the least but its still in a healthy range. It indicates they are able to pay their short term obligations.
Expeditors has a good liability asset ratio while CSX Corp, Fedex and XPO Logistics has higher increasing ratio which indicates most assets are being tied with debt i.e a financial risk.
The trend of sharp increase on long term debt ratio for CSX Corp, Fedex and XPO Logistics indicates a financial risk but still all companies has less than 0.5 long term debt ratio for which we can say that they are in a position to pay long term debts. 

CSX Corp has the longest inventory days but Fedex has shorter days which indicates Fedex is efficient in sales performance and inventory management.
All competitive companies has good cash conversation cycle but CSX Corp is the best and XPO Logistics comes 2nd best. Fedex had significantly improved from 2015 and efficiency has decreased a little since 2018 as its number of days are increasing.
CSX Corp has the highest labor productivity and payable/receivable ratio which indicates efficient payment collection and bargaining power.

As liability asset ratio increases operating margin decreases. This indicates as liability asset ratio increases the other related costs also increases and are affecting the operating margin.

Here  on this analysis as well, the higher the liability asset ratio its driving down the return on asset.

As we see here, cost of goods sold is the highest percentage out of the total revenue. CSX Corp has the lowest COGS and highest net income compared to the other competitors. It is also in a betterr position than the industry average. Fedex Corp on the other hand is below the industry average having high COGS and other costs and lowest net income.

CSX Corp has the least current liabilities but the highest non current liability than the industry average. Despite this though, it has higher stockholder equity which indicates a good financial health. Fedex and XPO Logistics are close to industry average in all three pointers. Expeditors is the best comparatively having much lower non current liability and the highest stock holders equity which also indicates a very good financial health.

Although CSX Corp performance has been best compared to its competitors so far, it has the least cash of all and much lower than the industry average.