EGLE vs. TK, ASC, TNP, GSL, SB, GNK, OSG, SMHI, CPLP, and DSX
Should you be buying Eagle Bulk Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Bulk Shipping include Teekay (TK), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Safe Bulkers (SB), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), and Diana Shipping (DSX). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Eagle Bulk Shipping (NASDAQ:EGLE) and Teekay (NYSE:TK) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Eagle Bulk Shipping has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teekay has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Eagle Bulk Shipping's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Teekay'saverage media sentiment score.
Eagle Bulk Shipping presently has a consensus target price of $56.75, indicating a potential downside of 9.35%. Given Eagle Bulk Shipping's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Eagle Bulk Shipping is more favorable than Teekay.
70.6% of Eagle Bulk Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.7% of Teekay shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Eagle Bulk Shipping shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Teekay shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Teekay received 12 more outperform votes than Eagle Bulk Shipping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.64% of users gave Teekay an outperform vote while only 57.35% of users gave Eagle Bulk Shipping an outperform vote.
Teekay has a net margin of 10.28% compared to Eagle Bulk Shipping's net margin of 5.77%. Teekay's return on equity of 9.07% beat Eagle Bulk Shipping's return on equity.
Teekay has higher revenue and earnings than Eagle Bulk Shipping. Teekay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eagle Bulk Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Teekay beats Eagle Bulk Shipping on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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