ASC vs. BWLP, FLNG, NMM, CCEC, UP, CMRE, LPG, NVGS, ULCC, and VTOL
Should you be buying Ardmore Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardmore Shipping include BW LPG (BWLP), FLEX LNG (FLNG), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Capital Clean Energy Carriers (CCEC), Wheels Up Experience (UP), Costamare (CMRE), Dorian LPG (LPG), Navigator (NVGS), Frontier Group (ULCC), and Bristow Group (VTOL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Ardmore Shipping vs.
BW LPG (NYSE:BWLP) and Ardmore Shipping (NYSE:ASC) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and profitability.
In the previous week, BW LPG had 18 more articles in the media than Ardmore Shipping. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for BW LPG and 1 mentions for Ardmore Shipping. Ardmore Shipping's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat BW LPG's score of 0.18 indicating that Ardmore Shipping is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BW LPG has higher revenue and earnings than Ardmore Shipping. BW LPG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ardmore Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ardmore Shipping has a net margin of 32.78% compared to BW LPG's net margin of 0.00%. Ardmore Shipping's return on equity of 20.48% beat BW LPG's return on equity.
BW LPG pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.2%. Ardmore Shipping pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. BW LPG pays out 63.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ardmore Shipping pays out 8.8% 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.
Ardmore Shipping has a consensus price target of $13.67, indicating a potential upside of 40.68%. Given Ardmore Shipping's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ardmore Shipping is more favorable than BW LPG.
Ardmore Shipping received 445 more outperform votes than BW LPG when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave BW LPG an outperform vote while only 63.81% of users gave Ardmore Shipping an outperform vote.
62.2% of Ardmore Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Ardmore Shipping beats BW LPG on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ASC) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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