GOGL vs. GLNG, TNK, NAT, INSW, MATX, TDW, KEX, CAAP, GBTG, and SKYW
Should you be buying Golden Ocean Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Golden Ocean Group include Golar LNG (GLNG), Teekay Tankers (TNK), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), International Seaways (INSW), Matson (MATX), Tidewater (TDW), Kirby (KEX), Corporación América Airports (CAAP), Global Business Travel Group (GBTG), and SkyWest (SKYW).
Golar LNG (NASDAQ:GLNG) and Golden Ocean Group (NASDAQ:GOGL) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
Golar LNG presently has a consensus price target of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.30%. Golden Ocean Group has a consensus price target of $12.75, suggesting a potential downside of 9.64%. Given Golden Ocean Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Golar LNG is more favorable than Golden Ocean Group.
Golar LNG pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Golden Ocean Group pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Golar LNG pays out -232.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Golden Ocean Group pays out 214.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Golar LNG has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Golden Ocean Group has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Golar LNG has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Golden Ocean Group has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
92.2% of Golar LNG shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.0% of Golden Ocean Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Golar LNG shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Golar LNG received 94 more outperform votes than Golden Ocean Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.89% of users gave Golar LNG an outperform vote while only 60.26% of users gave Golden Ocean Group an outperform vote.
Golden Ocean Group has a net margin of 12.68% compared to Golden Ocean Group's net margin of -15.68%. Golden Ocean Group's return on equity of 11.67% beat Golar LNG's return on equity.
In the previous week, Golden Ocean Group had 15 more articles in the media than Golar LNG. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Golden Ocean Group and 3 mentions for Golar LNG. Golden Ocean Group's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Golar LNG's score of 0.21 indicating that Golar LNG is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Golden Ocean Group has higher revenue and earnings than Golar LNG. Golar LNG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Golden Ocean Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Golar LNG beats Golden Ocean Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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