DHT vs. SFL, SBLK, LPG, DAC, CMRE, NMM, ZIM, NVGS, TRMD, and GNK
Should you be buying DHT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DHT include SFL (SFL), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Dorian LPG (LPG), Danaos (DAC), Costamare (CMRE), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Navigator (NVGS), TORM (TRMD), and Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
SFL (NYSE:SFL) and DHT (NYSE:DHT) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
SFL has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DHT has a beta of -0.33, suggesting that its stock price is 133% less volatile than the S&P 500.
DHT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SFL. DHT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SFL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
28.6% of SFL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.5% of DHT shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of DHT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, DHT had 2 more articles in the media than SFL. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for DHT and 5 mentions for SFL. SFL's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat DHT's score of 0.21 indicating that DHT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DHT has a net margin of 28.78% compared to DHT's net margin of 11.16%. SFL's return on equity of 15.52% beat DHT's return on equity.
DHT received 325 more outperform votes than SFL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.13% of users gave DHT an outperform vote while only 56.84% of users gave SFL an outperform vote.
SFL pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. DHT pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. SFL pays out 157.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. DHT pays out 88.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SFL has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and DHT has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. SFL is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
SFL presently has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential downside of 7.90%. DHT has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.17%. Given SFL's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DHT is more favorable than SFL.
Summary
DHT beats SFL on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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