NAT vs. TNK, CLCO, INSW, DESP, GSL, CYRX, HTLD, ATSG, TNP, and VTOL
Should you be buying Nordic American Tankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nordic American Tankers include Teekay Tankers (TNK), Cool (CLCO), International Seaways (INSW), Despegar.com (DESP), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Cryoport (CYRX), Heartland Express (HTLD), Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), and Bristow Group (VTOL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Teekay Tankers (NYSE:TNK) and Nordic American Tankers (NYSE:NAT) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability and valuation.
Teekay Tankers currently has a consensus price target of $71.67, suggesting a potential upside of 12.79%. Nordic American Tankers has a consensus price target of $5.33, suggesting a potential upside of 31.52%. Given Teekay Tankers' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nordic American Tankers is more favorable than Teekay Tankers.
Teekay Tankers has a beta of -0.27, suggesting that its stock price is 127% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nordic American Tankers has a beta of -0.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500.
52.7% of Teekay Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.3% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Teekay Tankers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Teekay Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Nordic American Tankers pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.8%. Teekay Tankers pays out 6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nordic American Tankers pays out 102.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Teekay Tankers has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Nordic American Tankers has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Teekay Tankers has higher revenue and earnings than Nordic American Tankers. Teekay Tankers 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.
Teekay Tankers received 103 more outperform votes than Nordic American Tankers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.36% of users gave Teekay Tankers an outperform vote while only 51.07% of users gave Nordic American Tankers an outperform vote.
Nordic American Tankers' return on equity of 36.16% beat Teekay Tankers' return on equity.
In the previous week, Teekay Tankers had 9 more articles in the media than Nordic American Tankers. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Teekay Tankers and 2 mentions for Nordic American Tankers. Nordic American Tankers' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Teekay Tankers' score of 0.23 indicating that Teekay Tankers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Teekay Tankers beats Nordic American Tankers on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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