Contrasting The Taiwan Fund (NYSE:TWN) and Deutsche Post (OTCMKTS:DHLGY)

Deutsche Post (OTCMKTS:DHLGY) and The Taiwan Fund (NYSE:TWN) are both transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Deutsche Post and The Taiwan Fund, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Deutsche Post	1	1	0	0	1.50
The Taiwan Fund	0	0	0	0	0.00

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Deutsche Post and The Taiwan Fund”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Deutsche Post	$88.48 billion	0.47	$3.98 billion	$2.92	11.86
The Taiwan Fund	$99.70 million	3.32	N/A	N/A	N/A

Deutsche Post has higher revenue and earnings than The Taiwan Fund.

Profitability

This table compares Deutsche Post and The Taiwan Fund’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Deutsche Post	3.88%	13.93%	4.76%
The Taiwan Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Dividends

Deutsche Post pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. The Taiwan Fund pays an annual dividend of $7.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.0%. Deutsche Post pays out 48.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Risk & Volatility

Deutsche Post has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Taiwan Fund has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Deutsche Post beats The Taiwan Fund on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Deutsche Post

Deutsche Post AG operates as a mail and logistics company in Germany, rest of Europe, the Americas, the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through five segments: Express; Global Forwarding, Freight; Supply Chain; eCommerce Solutions; and Post & Parcel Germany. The Express segment offers time-definite courier and express services to business and private customers. The Global Forwarding, Freight segment provides air, ocean, and overland freight forwarding services; and offers multimodal and sector-specific solutions. This segment's business model is based on brokering transport services between customers and freight carriers. The Supply Chain segment delivers customized supply chain solutions to its customers based on modular components, including warehousing and transport services; and value-added services, such as e-fulfilment, omnichannel solutions and returns management, lead logistics partner, real estate solutions, service logistics, and packaging solutions for various industrial sectors. The eCommerce Solutions segment provides parcel delivery and cross-border non-time definite international services. The Post & Parcel Germany segment transports and delivers mail communication, parcels, physical and hybrid letters, and special products for the delivery of goods; and offers additional services, such as registered mail, cash on delivery, and insured items. Deutsche Post AG was founded in 1490 and is headquartered in Bonn, Germany.

About The Taiwan Fund

The Taiwan Fund, Inc. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Nomura Asset Management U.S.A. Inc. It invests in the public equity markets of Taiwan. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It employs fundamental analysis focusing on such factors as overall growth prospects, competitive position in the respective industry, technology, research, and development, productivity, labor costs, raw material costs and sources, profit margins, return on investment, capital resources, government regulation, and management to create its portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the TAIEX Total Return Index. The Taiwan Fund, Inc. was formed on December 23, 1986 and is domiciled in the United States.