TORO vs. KNOP, BLDE, GASS, SHIP, MOND, DLNG, SPCE, TOUR, YTRA, and CRGO
Should you be buying Toro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Toro include KNOT Offshore Partners (KNOP), Blade Air Mobility (BLDE), StealthGas (GASS), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), Mondee (MOND), Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), Tuniu (TOUR), Yatra Online (YTRA), and Freightos (CRGO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Toro (NASDAQ:TORO) and KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Toro has a net margin of 247.75% compared to KNOT Offshore Partners' net margin of -8.64%. Toro's return on equity of 37.32% beat KNOT Offshore Partners' return on equity.
Toro has higher earnings, but lower revenue than KNOT Offshore Partners. KNOT Offshore Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
1.7% of Toro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.8% of KNOT Offshore Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Toro has a beta of 1.98, indicating that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KNOT Offshore Partners has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, KNOT Offshore Partners had 12 more articles in the media than Toro. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for KNOT Offshore Partners and 2 mentions for Toro. KNOT Offshore Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Toro's score of -0.39 indicating that KNOT Offshore Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KNOT Offshore Partners received 314 more outperform votes than Toro when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Toro beats KNOT Offshore Partners on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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