KNOP vs. NAT, CLCO, OMEX, EDRY, USEA, DLNG, FLNG, RCL, CCL, and BIP
Should you be buying KNOT Offshore Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KNOT Offshore Partners include Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Cool (CLCO), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), EuroDry (EDRY), United Maritime (USEA), Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG), 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.
KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP) and Nordic American Tankers (NYSE:NAT) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Nordic American Tankers has a consensus price target of $5.17, suggesting a potential upside of 27.89%. Given Nordic American Tankers' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nordic American Tankers is more favorable than KNOT Offshore Partners.
Nordic American Tankers received 24 more outperform votes than KNOT Offshore Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.21% of users gave KNOT Offshore Partners an outperform vote while only 50.99% of users gave Nordic American Tankers an outperform vote.
KNOT Offshore Partners has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nordic American Tankers has a beta of -0.12, indicating that its stock price is 112% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, KNOT Offshore Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.00 equaled Nordic American Tankers'average media sentiment score.
KNOT Offshore Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Nordic American Tankers pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. KNOT Offshore Partners pays out -13.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nordic American Tankers pays out 150.0% 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 lower revenue, but higher earnings than KNOT Offshore Partners. KNOT Offshore Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nordic American Tankers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
26.8% of KNOT Offshore Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.3% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nordic American Tankers has a net margin of 28.37% compared to KNOT Offshore Partners' net margin of -8.64%. Nordic American Tankers' return on equity of 12.43% beat KNOT Offshore Partners' return on equity.
Summary
Nordic American Tankers beats KNOT Offshore Partners on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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