CYRX vs. NAT, SNCY, GSL, DESP, HTLD, ATSG, VLRS, VTOL, AUPH, and TNP
Should you be buying Cryoport stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cryoport include Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Despegar.com (DESP), Heartland Express (HTLD), Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Bristow Group (VTOL), Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (AUPH), and Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP).
Cryoport (NASDAQ:CYRX) and Nordic American Tankers (NYSE:NAT) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Cryoport currently has a consensus price target of $18.63, suggesting a potential upside of 16.19%. Nordic American Tankers has a consensus price target of $5.33, suggesting a potential upside of 38.17%. Given Nordic American Tankers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nordic American Tankers is more favorable than Cryoport.
Nordic American Tankers received 97 more outperform votes than Cryoport when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.29% of users gave Cryoport an outperform vote while only 51.07% of users gave Nordic American Tankers an outperform vote.
Cryoport has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nordic American Tankers has a beta of -0.1, indicating that its stock price is 110% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nordic American Tankers has a net margin of 37.65% compared to Cryoport's net margin of -42.69%. Nordic American Tankers' return on equity of 18.12% beat Cryoport's return on equity.
In the previous week, Nordic American Tankers had 1 more articles in the media than Cryoport. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Nordic American Tankers and 2 mentions for Cryoport. Cryoport's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Nordic American Tankers' score of 0.77 indicating that Cryoport is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.9% of Cryoport shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.3% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.1% of Cryoport shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Nordic American Tankers has higher revenue and earnings than Cryoport. Cryoport 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.
Summary
Nordic American Tankers beats Cryoport on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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