Head-To-Head Survey: DirectBooking Technology (NASDAQ:ZDAI) and Matson (NYSE:MATX)

DirectBooking Technology (NASDAQ:ZDAI) and Matson (NYSE:MATX) are both transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

84.8% of Matson shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Matson shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

DirectBooking Technology has a beta of 4.5, suggesting that its share price is 350% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Matson has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares DirectBooking Technology and Matson”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
DirectBooking Technology	$19.28 million	0.53	-$6.98 million	N/A	N/A
Matson	$3.38 billion	1.00	$476.40 million	$13.14	8.24

Matson has higher revenue and earnings than DirectBooking Technology.

Profitability

This table compares DirectBooking Technology and Matson’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DirectBooking Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A
Matson	14.26%	18.90%	10.95%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for DirectBooking Technology and Matson, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DirectBooking Technology	1	0	0	0	1.00
Matson	0	4	2	0	2.33

Matson has a consensus price target of $141.75, indicating a potential upside of 30.90%. Given Matson’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Matson is more favorable than DirectBooking Technology.

Summary

Matson beats DirectBooking Technology on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About DirectBooking Technology

We are a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with operations conducted by our Hong Kong subsidiary, Primega Construction. As a holding company with no material operations of its own, we conduct our operations in Hong Kong through our operating subsidiary, Primega Construction. Primega Construction is a provider of transportation services that employs environmentally friendly practices with the aim of facilitating reuse of C&D materials and reduction of construction waste. Through Primega Construction, we operate in the Hong Kong construction industry, mainly handling transportation of materials excavated from construction sites. Primega Construction principally provides the following services in Hong Kong (i) soil and rock transportation services; (ii) diesel oil trading; and (iii) construction works, which mainly includes ELS works and bored piling. We generally provide our services as a subcontractor to other construction contractors in Hong Kong. We generate the majority of our income from soil and rock transportation services provided by Primega Construction, which contributed 73.82%, 88.47% and 66.48% of our total revenue during the years ended March 31, 2022 and 2023 and the six months ended September 30, 2023, respectively. Primega Construction works with recyclers and other private contractors to repurpose and recycle excavated materials, reducing the volume of construction waste ending up in landfills, while lowering waste disposal fees incurred by its customers. Our principal executive office is located at Room 2912, 29/F., New Tech Plaza, 34 Tai Yau Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Our registered office in the Cayman Islands is located at the office of Appleby Global Services (Cayman) Limited, 71 Fort Street, PO Box 500, George Town, Grand Cayman, KY1–1106, Cayman Islands. Our agent for service of process in the United States is Cogency Global Inc., located at 122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor, New York.

About Matson

Matson, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of ocean transportation and logistics services. It operates through two segments, Ocean Transportation and Logistics. The Ocean Transportation segment offers ocean freight transportation services to the domestic non-contiguous economies of Hawaii, Japan, Alaska, and Guam, as well as to other island economies in Micronesia. It primarily transports dry containers of mixed commodities, refrigerated commodities, food products, beverages, building materials, automobiles, and household goods; livestock; seafood; general sustenance cargo; and garments, footwear, e-commerce, and other retail merchandise. This segment also operates an expedited service from China to Long Beach, California, and various islands in the South Pacific, as well as Okinawa, Japan; and provides stevedoring, refrigerated cargo services, inland transportation, container equipment maintenance, and other terminal services to ocean carriers on the Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, as well as in the Alaska locations of Anchorage, Kodiak, and Dutch Harbor. In addition, it offers vessel management and container transshipment services. The Logistics segment provides multimodal transportation brokerage services, including domestic and international rail intermodal, long-haul and regional highway trucking, specialized hauling, flat-bed and project, less-than-truckload, and expedited freight services; less-than-container load consolidation and freight forwarding services; warehousing and distribution services; supply chain management services, and non-vessel operating common carrier freight forwarding services. It serves the U.S. military, freight forwarders, retailers, consumer goods, automobile manufacturers, and other customers. The company was formerly known as Alexander & Baldwin Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Matson, Inc. in June 2012. Matson, Inc. was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.