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LSTR vs ZTO

Side-by-side comparison of Landstar System Inc. (LSTR) and ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (ZTO): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both LSTR and ZTO operate in Trucking Freight/Courier Services (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • ZTO is the larger of the two at $21.89B, about 3.7x LSTR ($5.94B).
  • Over the past year, LSTR is up 32.2% and ZTO is up 34.3% - ZTO leads by 2.1 points.
  • ZTO has been more active in the news (8 items in the past 4 weeks vs 2 for LSTR).
  • LSTR has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 15 for ZTO).
PerformanceLSTR+32.25%ZTO+34.31%
2025-04-28+0.00%2026-04-24
MetricLSTRZTO
Company
Landstar System Inc.
ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc.
Price
$178.96-0.53%
$25.72+0.86%
Market cap
$5.94B
$21.89B
1M return
+13.93%
+5.80%
1Y return
+32.25%
+34.31%
Sector
Industrials
Industrials
Industry
Trucking Freight/Courier Services
Trucking Freight/Courier Services
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
1993
2016
News (4w)
2
8
Recent ratings
25
15
LSTR

Landstar System Inc.

Landstar System, Inc. provides integrated transportation management solutions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Transportation Logistics, and Insurance. The Transportation Logistics segment offers a range of transportation services, including truckload and less-than-truckload transportation, rail intermodal, air cargo, ocean cargo, expedited ground and air delivery of time-critical freight, heavy-haul/specialized, U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico cross-border, intra-Mexico, intra-Canada, project cargo, and customs brokerage, as well as offers transportation services to other transportation companies, such as third party logistics and less-than-truckload service providers. It provides truck services through dry and specialty vans of various sizes, unsided/platform trailers, temperature-controlled vans, and containers; rail intermodal services through contracts with domestic and Canadian railroads; and air and ocean services through contracts with domestic and international airlines and ocean lines. This segment serves the automotive parts and assemblies, consumer durables, building products, metals, chemicals, foodstuffs, heavy machinery, retail, electronics, and military equipment industries. The Insurance segment reinsures certain risks of the company's independent contractors. The company markets its services through independent commission sales agents and third party capacity providers. Landstar System, Inc. was incorporated in 1991 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

ZTO

ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc.

ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. provides express delivery and other value-added logistics services in the People's Republic of China. The company offers delivery services for e-commerce and traditional merchants, and other express service users. As of December 31, 2019, it operated a fleet of approximately 6,450 self-owned trucks. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.

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