DHT vs. FRO, STNG, TRMD, ZIM, SBLK, CDLR, SFL, DAC, CMRE, and LPG
Should you be buying DHT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DHT include Frontline (FRO), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), TORM (TRMD), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), SFL (SFL), Danaos (DAC), Costamare (CMRE), and Dorian LPG (LPG). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
DHT (NYSE:DHT) and Frontline (NYSE:FRO) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
DHT received 93 more outperform votes than Frontline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.03% of users gave DHT an outperform vote while only 58.25% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote.
58.5% of DHT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.7% of Frontline shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of DHT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 48.1% of Frontline shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Frontline has a net margin of 32.94% compared to DHT's net margin of 29.58%. Frontline's return on equity of 23.14% beat DHT's return on equity.
DHT has a beta of -0.32, suggesting that its stock price is 132% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontline has a beta of 0.03, suggesting that its stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Frontline has higher revenue and earnings than DHT. Frontline is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DHT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DHT pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Frontline pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. DHT pays out 110.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Frontline pays out 51.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, DHT had 1 more articles in the media than Frontline. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for DHT and 1 mentions for Frontline. DHT's average media sentiment score of 1.94 beat Frontline's score of 0.80 indicating that DHT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
DHT currently has a consensus price target of $14.33, indicating a potential upside of 23.78%. Frontline has a consensus price target of $26.10, indicating a potential downside of 0.57%. Given DHT's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe DHT is more favorable than Frontline.
Summary
DHT beats Frontline on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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