TRMD vs. SBLK, DHT, SFL, STNG, LPG, DAC, CMRE, NMM, ZIM, and NVGS
Should you be buying TORM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TORM include Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), DHT (DHT), SFL (SFL), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Dorian LPG (LPG), Danaos (DAC), Costamare (CMRE), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), and Navigator (NVGS). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Star Bulk Carriers (NASDAQ:SBLK) and TORM (NASDAQ:TRMD) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
TORM has a net margin of 42.64% compared to TORM's net margin of 18.28%. Star Bulk Carriers' return on equity of 36.99% beat TORM's return on equity.
Star Bulk Carriers has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TORM has a beta of 0.15, meaning that its share price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500.
33.9% of Star Bulk Carriers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of TORM shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Star Bulk Carriers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of TORM shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Star Bulk Carriers and Star Bulk Carriers both had 2 articles in the media. Star Bulk Carriers' average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat TORM's score of 0.60 indicating that TORM is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Star Bulk Carriers currently has a consensus price target of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 119.08%. Given TORM's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Star Bulk Carriers is more favorable than TORM.
TORM has higher revenue and earnings than Star Bulk Carriers. TORM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star Bulk Carriers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Star Bulk Carriers received 472 more outperform votes than TORM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.46% of users gave Star Bulk Carriers an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave TORM an outperform vote.
Star Bulk Carriers pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. TORM pays an annual dividend of $3.97 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%. Star Bulk Carriers pays out 101.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. TORM pays out 53.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Star Bulk Carriers has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. TORM is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
TORM beats Star Bulk Carriers on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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