TRMD vs. SBLK, STNG, SFL, DHT, LPG, CDLR, ZIM, DAC, CMRE, and NMM
Should you be buying TORM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TORM include Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), SFL (SFL), DHT (DHT), Dorian LPG (LPG), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Danaos (DAC), Costamare (CMRE), and Navios Maritime Partners (NMM). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
TORM (NASDAQ:TRMD) and Star Bulk Carriers (NASDAQ:SBLK) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
TORM pays an annual dividend of $3.97 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Star Bulk Carriers pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. TORM pays out 53.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. TORM is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Star Bulk Carriers received 472 more outperform votes than TORM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.46% of users gave Star Bulk Carriers an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave TORM an outperform vote.
TORM has a beta of 0.16, indicating that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Star Bulk Carriers has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TORM has higher revenue and earnings than Star Bulk Carriers. TORM 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.
73.9% of TORM shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.9% of Star Bulk Carriers shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of TORM shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Star Bulk Carriers had 1 more articles in the media than TORM. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Star Bulk Carriers and 2 mentions for TORM. TORM's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Star Bulk Carriers' score of -0.26 indicating that TORM is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TORM has a net margin of 42.64% compared to Star Bulk Carriers' net margin of 18.28%. TORM's return on equity of 36.99% beat Star Bulk Carriers' return on equity.
Star Bulk Carriers has a consensus target price of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 105.37%. Given Star Bulk Carriers' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Star Bulk Carriers is more favorable than TORM.
Summary
TORM beats Star Bulk Carriers on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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