CLCO vs. NAT, KNOP, DLNG, OMEX, EDRY, USEA, FLNG, RCL, CCL, and BIP
Should you be buying Cool stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cool include Nordic American Tankers (NAT), KNOT Offshore Partners (KNOP), Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), EuroDry (EDRY), United Maritime (USEA), FLEX LNG (FLNG), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP). These companies are all part of the "water transportation" industry.
Nordic American Tankers (NYSE:NAT) and Cool (NYSE:CLCO) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
In the previous week, Cool had 15 more articles in the media than Nordic American Tankers. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Cool and 5 mentions for Nordic American Tankers. Cool's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Nordic American Tankers' score of 0.40 indicating that Nordic American Tankers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nordic American Tankers pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.3%. Cool pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. Nordic American Tankers pays out 102.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Nordic American Tankers has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
44.3% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.7% of Cool shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cool has higher revenue and earnings than Nordic American Tankers.
Nordic American Tankers has a beta of -0.09, meaning that its share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cool has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nordic American Tankers received 333 more outperform votes than Cool when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Cool an outperform vote while only 50.99% of users gave Nordic American Tankers an outperform vote.
Nordic American Tankers has a net margin of 37.65% compared to Nordic American Tankers' net margin of 0.00%. Cool's return on equity of 18.12% beat Nordic American Tankers' return on equity.
Nordic American Tankers presently has a consensus target price of $5.33, indicating a potential upside of 26.08%. Given Cool's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Nordic American Tankers is more favorable than Cool.
Summary
Nordic American Tankers beats Cool on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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