GRIN vs. EURN, ECO, CAAP, DLNG, FLNG, CISS, OP, PSHG, CTRM, and GLBS
Should you be buying Grindrod Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grindrod Shipping include Euronav (EURN), Okeanis Eco Tankers (ECO), Corporación América Airports (CAAP), Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG), FLEX LNG (FLNG), C3is (CISS), OceanPal (OP), Performance Shipping (PSHG), Castor Maritime (CTRM), and Globus Maritime (GLBS). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Grindrod Shipping (NASDAQ:GRIN) and Euronav (NYSE:EURN) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
Grindrod Shipping currently has a consensus target price of $12.50, indicating a potential downside of 8.76%. Euronav has a consensus target price of $19.18, indicating a potential downside of 5.53%. Given Euronav's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Euronav is more favorable than Grindrod Shipping.
Euronav received 422 more outperform votes than Grindrod Shipping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.92% of users gave Euronav an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Grindrod Shipping an outperform vote.
Euronav has a net margin of 103.93% compared to Grindrod Shipping's net margin of -2.49%. Euronav's return on equity of 23.36% beat Grindrod Shipping's return on equity.
Grindrod Shipping pays an annual dividend of $0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Euronav pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Grindrod Shipping pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Euronav pays out 25.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Euronav has higher revenue and earnings than Grindrod Shipping. Grindrod Shipping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Euronav, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Euronav had 6 more articles in the media than Grindrod Shipping. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Euronav and 3 mentions for Grindrod Shipping. Grindrod Shipping's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Euronav's score of 0.26 indicating that Grindrod Shipping is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Grindrod Shipping has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Euronav has a beta of 0.04, meaning that its share price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Euronav beats Grindrod Shipping on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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