SBLK vs. DHT, SFL, LPG, CDLR, DAC, ZIM, CMRE, TRMD, NMM, and NVGS
Should you be buying Star Bulk Carriers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Star Bulk Carriers include DHT (DHT), SFL (SFL), Dorian LPG (LPG), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Danaos (DAC), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Costamare (CMRE), TORM (TRMD), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), and Navigator (NVGS). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
DHT (NYSE:DHT) and Star Bulk Carriers (NASDAQ:SBLK) are both transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
DHT presently has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.69%. Star Bulk Carriers has a consensus price target of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 116.51%. Given DHT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Star Bulk Carriers is more favorable than DHT.
58.5% of DHT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.9% of Star Bulk Carriers shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of DHT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Star Bulk Carriers shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
DHT has a net margin of 28.78% compared to DHT's net margin of 18.28%. Star Bulk Carriers' return on equity of 15.52% beat DHT's return on equity.
In the previous week, DHT had 8 more articles in the media than Star Bulk Carriers. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for DHT and 2 mentions for Star Bulk Carriers. DHT's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Star Bulk Carriers' score of 0.61 indicating that Star Bulk Carriers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DHT received 89 more outperform votes than Star Bulk Carriers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.13% of users gave DHT an outperform vote while only 70.46% of users gave Star Bulk Carriers an outperform vote.
DHT has a beta of -0.33, suggesting that its share price is 133% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Star Bulk Carriers has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DHT pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Star Bulk Carriers pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. DHT pays out 88.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Star Bulk Carriers pays out 101.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. DHT has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Star Bulk Carriers has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. DHT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Star Bulk Carriers has higher revenue and earnings than DHT. DHT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star Bulk Carriers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
DHT beats Star Bulk Carriers on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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