GASS vs. CPLP, TOPS, NM, GSL, GNK, ASC, TNP, TK, OSG, and SB
Should you be buying StealthGas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of StealthGas include Capital Product Partners (CPLP), Top Ships (TOPS), Navios Maritime (NM), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Teekay (TK), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), and Safe Bulkers (SB). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
StealthGas (NASDAQ:GASS) and Capital Product Partners (NASDAQ:CPLP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
StealthGas has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Product Partners has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Capital Product Partners received 48 more outperform votes than StealthGas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.28% of users gave StealthGas an outperform vote while only 61.37% of users gave Capital Product Partners an outperform vote.
StealthGas has a net margin of 35.95% compared to Capital Product Partners' net margin of 18.51%. StealthGas' return on equity of 9.19% beat Capital Product Partners' return on equity.
StealthGas has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Capital Product Partners. StealthGas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Product Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, StealthGas and StealthGas both had 3 articles in the media. Capital Product Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat StealthGas' score of 0.44 indicating that Capital Product Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
66.3% of StealthGas shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.1% of StealthGas shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
StealthGas presently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.66%. Capital Product Partners has a consensus target price of $20.67, suggesting a potential upside of 15.59%. Given Capital Product Partners' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Capital Product Partners is more favorable than StealthGas.
Summary
StealthGas beats Capital Product Partners on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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