SHYF vs DADA Comparison

The Shyft Group Inc is engaged in specialty vehicle manufacturing and assembly for commercial vehicles (including last-mile delivery, specialty service, and vocation-specific upfit segments) and recreational vehicle industries. Its products include walk-in vans, truck bodies, cargo vans, and pick-up truck upfits used in e-commerce/parcel delivery, upfit equipment used in the mobile retail and utility trades, as well as luxury Class A diesel motorhome custom chassis and contract manufacturing and assembly services. It also supplies replacement parts and offers repair, maintenance, field service, and refurbishment services for the vehicles that the company manufactures.

Dada Nexus is a leading crowdsourced delivery service in China. The company has two core businesses, Dada Now, which is an on-demand delivery platform that provides last-mile and intracity services; and JD Daojia, or JDDJ, which is an online on-demand retail platform that connects consumers to merchants with its delivery capabilities. As of 2022, Dada Now accounted for 34% of revenue while JDDJ accounted for the rest. JDDJ and Dada Nexus merged in 2016, where JD.com received 47.4% ownership of the merged entity in exchange for its JDDJ business. As of June 2023, JD.com and Walmart Inc own 53.9% and 9.3% of Dada Nexus, respectively. Dada Nexus competes with other logistics companies such as SF Intra-City, with Didi in its delivery business, and with Meituan in its on-demand retail segment.