ASC vs. TRMD, DAC, ARCB, BWLP, FLNG, CMRE, CCEC, NMM, LPG, and NVGS
Should you be buying Ardmore Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardmore Shipping include TORM (TRMD), Danaos (DAC), ArcBest (ARCB), BW LPG (BWLP), FLEX LNG (FLNG), Costamare (CMRE), Capital Clean Energy Carriers (CCEC), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Dorian LPG (LPG), and Navigator (NVGS). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Ardmore Shipping vs.
TORM (NASDAQ:TRMD) and Ardmore Shipping (NYSE:ASC) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
TORM presently has a consensus price target of $27.50, indicating a potential upside of 65.43%. Ardmore Shipping has a consensus price target of $13.67, indicating a potential upside of 40.68%. Given TORM's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe TORM is more favorable than Ardmore Shipping.
TORM has a net margin of 43.81% compared to Ardmore Shipping's net margin of 32.78%. TORM's return on equity of 34.45% beat Ardmore Shipping's return on equity.
In the previous week, TORM had 6 more articles in the media than Ardmore Shipping. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for TORM and 1 mentions for Ardmore Shipping. TORM's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Ardmore Shipping's score of 0.09 indicating that TORM is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ardmore Shipping received 437 more outperform votes than TORM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.75% of users gave Ardmore Shipping an outperform vote while only 42.11% of users gave TORM an outperform vote.
73.9% of TORM shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.2% of Ardmore Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of TORM shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
TORM has higher revenue and earnings than Ardmore Shipping. TORM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ardmore Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TORM pays an annual dividend of $1.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%. Ardmore Shipping pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. TORM pays out 27.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ardmore Shipping pays out 10.5% 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 has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ardmore Shipping has a beta of 0.16, suggesting that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
TORM beats Ardmore Shipping on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ASC) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
