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Top Shipping Stocks To Research - March 7th

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat's screener highlights five shipping stocks to watch today: Viking, Frontline, Golar LNG, Almonty Industries, and Scorpio Tankers, selected for having the highest recent dollar trading volume among shipping names.
  • The shipping sector is inherently cyclical and volatile, with share prices sensitive to global trade volumes, freight rates, fuel costs and vessel supply/demand (often tracking indexes like the Baltic Dry Index).
  • Viking runs a 92‑ship passenger fleet (river, ocean and expedition), Golar LNG focuses on FLNG and LNG infrastructure and vessel management, and Scorpio Tankers operates about 110 owned/leased tankers.
  • Interested in Viking? Here are five stocks we like better.

Viking, Frontline, Golar LNG, Almonty Industries, and Scorpio Tankers are the five Shipping stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Shipping stocks are shares of companies that build, own, operate or manage merchant vessels and provide maritime freight services—including container lines, tankers, bulk carriers and ship managers—whose revenues come from transporting cargo or chartering ships. They are cyclical and sensitive to global trade volumes, freight rates, fuel costs and vessel supply/demand, so their prices often show higher volatility tied to shipping indexes (e.g., the Baltic Dry Index) and macroeconomic conditions. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Shipping stocks within the last several days.

Viking (VIK)

Viking Holdings Ltd engages in the passenger shipping and other forms of passenger transport in North America, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates through River and Ocean segments. The company also operates as a tour entrepreneur for passengers and related activities in tourism. As of December 31, 2023, it operated a fleet of 92 ships, including 81 river vessels comprising 58 Longships, 10 smaller classes based on the Longship design, 11 other river vessels, and 1 river vessel charter and the Viking Mississippi; 9 ocean ships; and 2 expedition ships.

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Frontline (FRO)

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Golar LNG (GLNG)

Golar LNG Limited designs, converts, owns, and operates marine infrastructure for the liquefaction of natural gas. The company operates through three segments: FLNG, Corporate and Other, and Shipping. It engages in the regasification, storage, and offloading of liquefied natural gas (LNG); operation of floating liquefaction natural gas (FLNG) vessels or projects; transportation of LNG carriers; and vessel management activities.

Read Our Latest Research Report on GLNG

Almonty Industries (ALM)

Almonty Industries Inc. is a producer of tungsten concentrate. The Company is currently mining, processing and shipping tungsten concentrate from its Panasqueira Mine in Portugal. Almonty Industries Inc. is based in TORONTO.

Read Our Latest Research Report on ALM

Scorpio Tankers (STNG)

Scorpio Tankers Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the seaborne transportation of crude oi and refined petroleum products in the shipping markets worldwide. As of March 21, 2024, its fleet consisted of 110 owned and leases financed tanker, including 39 LR2, 57 MR, and 14 Handymax with a weighted average age of approximately 8.1 years.

Read Our Latest Research Report on STNG

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