GNK vs. TNP, GSL, EGLE, ASC, ZIM, NVGS, SB, NMM, CMRE, and SMHI
Should you be buying Genco Shipping & Trading stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genco Shipping & Trading include Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Eagle Bulk Shipping (EGLE), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Navigator (NVGS), Safe Bulkers (SB), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Costamare (CMRE), and SEACOR Marine (SMHI). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Genco Shipping & Trading (NYSE:GNK) and Tsakos Energy Navigation (NYSE:TNP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
Genco Shipping & Trading has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tsakos Energy Navigation has a beta of -0.15, suggesting that its stock price is 115% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Tsakos Energy Navigation had 17 more articles in the media than Genco Shipping & Trading. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Tsakos Energy Navigation and 4 mentions for Genco Shipping & Trading. Tsakos Energy Navigation's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Genco Shipping & Trading's score of 0.61 indicating that Tsakos Energy Navigation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Genco Shipping & Trading currently has a consensus target price of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 1.36%. Tsakos Energy Navigation has a consensus target price of $30.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.16%. Given Tsakos Energy Navigation's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Tsakos Energy Navigation is more favorable than Genco Shipping & Trading.
Tsakos Energy Navigation received 120 more outperform votes than Genco Shipping & Trading when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.06% of users gave Tsakos Energy Navigation an outperform vote while only 62.04% of users gave Genco Shipping & Trading an outperform vote.
Tsakos Energy Navigation has a net margin of 39.33% compared to Genco Shipping & Trading's net margin of -3.35%. Tsakos Energy Navigation's return on equity of 36.83% beat Genco Shipping & Trading's return on equity.
Tsakos Energy Navigation has higher revenue and earnings than Genco Shipping & Trading. Genco Shipping & Trading is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tsakos Energy Navigation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.6% of Genco Shipping & Trading shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.2% of Tsakos Energy Navigation shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Genco Shipping & Trading shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Tsakos Energy Navigation shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Genco Shipping & Trading pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Tsakos Energy Navigation pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Genco Shipping & Trading pays out -529.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tsakos Energy Navigation pays out 5.3% 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. Genco Shipping & Trading is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Tsakos Energy Navigation beats Genco Shipping & Trading on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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