TRMD vs. SBLK, ZIM, DAC, DHT, SFL, STNG, CMRE, NVGS, LPG, and FRO
Should you be buying TORM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TORM include Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Danaos (DAC), DHT (DHT), SFL (SFL), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Costamare (CMRE), Navigator (NVGS), Dorian LPG (LPG), and Frontline (FRO). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
TORM vs.
TORM (NASDAQ:TRMD) and Star Bulk Carriers (NASDAQ:SBLK) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and community ranking.
77.3% of TORM shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.3% of Star Bulk Carriers shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of TORM shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
TORM currently has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.04%. Star Bulk Carriers has a consensus target price of $29.67, indicating a potential upside of 60.27%. Given Star Bulk Carriers' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Star Bulk Carriers is more favorable than TORM.
TORM has a net margin of 43.47% compared to Star Bulk Carriers' net margin of 33.95%. TORM's return on equity of 49.23% beat Star Bulk Carriers' return on equity.
In the previous week, Star Bulk Carriers had 1 more articles in the media than TORM. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Star Bulk Carriers and 4 mentions for TORM. Star Bulk Carriers' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat TORM's score of 0.65 indicating that Star Bulk Carriers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Star Bulk Carriers has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TORM. 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 467 more outperform votes than TORM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.45% of users gave Star Bulk Carriers an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave TORM an outperform vote.
TORM has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Star Bulk Carriers has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TORM pays an annual dividend of $4.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.9%. Star Bulk Carriers pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. TORM pays out 50.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Star Bulk Carriers pays out 55.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several 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.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TRMD and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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