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KNOP vs. VTOL, LIND, GNK, VLRS, SNCY, ULH, CVLG, ASC, FIP, and SB

Should you be buying KNOT Offshore Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KNOT Offshore Partners include Bristow Group (VTOL), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Controladora Vuela Compania de Aviacion (VLRS), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Universal Logistics (ULH), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), FTAI Infrastructure (FIP), and Safe Bulkers (SB). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.

KNOT Offshore Partners vs. Its Competitors

KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP) and Bristow Group (NYSE:VTOL) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.

In the previous week, Bristow Group had 5 more articles in the media than KNOT Offshore Partners. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Bristow Group and 0 mentions for KNOT Offshore Partners. Bristow Group's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat KNOT Offshore Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Bristow Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
KNOT Offshore Partners Neutral
Bristow Group Positive

Bristow Group has a net margin of 8.24% compared to KNOT Offshore Partners' net margin of 4.36%. Bristow Group's return on equity of 12.86% beat KNOT Offshore Partners' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
KNOT Offshore Partners4.36% 4.35% 1.43%
Bristow Group 8.24%12.86%5.49%

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
KNOT Offshore Partners
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Bristow Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

26.8% of KNOT Offshore Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of Bristow Group shares are held by institutional investors. 13.4% of Bristow Group 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.

Bristow Group has higher revenue and earnings than KNOT Offshore Partners. Bristow Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KNOT Offshore Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
KNOT Offshore Partners$318.60M0.93$13.93M$0.4120.98
Bristow Group$1.45B0.75$94.80M$4.019.41

KNOT Offshore Partners has a beta of -0.06, meaning that its stock price is 106% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bristow Group has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Bristow Group beats KNOT Offshore Partners on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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KNOP vs. The Competition

MetricKNOT Offshore PartnersTRANS IndustryTransportation SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$293.93M$2.48B$7.07B$21.58B
Dividend Yield1.21%4.56%940.00%3.48%
P/E Ratio20.9811.2213.7129.75
Price / Sales0.933.24637.5086.27
Price / Cash2.184.618.0225.00
Price / Book0.560.872.204.58
Net Income$13.93M$498.97M$556.72M$999.94M
7 Day Performance6.17%2.04%1.09%0.68%
1 Month Performance23.92%3.15%2.51%3.10%
1 Year Performance23.56%-10.13%10.67%14.39%

KNOT Offshore Partners Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KNOP
KNOT Offshore Partners
2.1329 of 5 stars
$8.60
+0.4%
N/A+23.2%$293.93M$318.60M20.98640
VTOL
Bristow Group
2.2973 of 5 stars
$37.93
+0.3%
N/A+10.5%$1.09B$1.42B9.463,447Positive News
LIND
Lindblad Expeditions
3.9922 of 5 stars
$14.00
-4.5%
$17.00
+21.4%
+39.9%$803.21M$644.73M-46.671,300Analyst Upgrade
GNK
Genco Shipping & Trading
3.0768 of 5 stars
$18.06
+1.4%
$18.00
-0.3%
+5.4%$764.68M$423.02M53.101,010News Coverage
Insider Trade
VLRS
Controladora Vuela Compania de Aviacion
1.9894 of 5 stars
$6.01
-2.4%
$7.44
+23.9%
-7.7%$717.08M$3.14B-22.246,901
SNCY
Sun Country Airlines
4.1496 of 5 stars
$12.83
-2.6%
$17.38
+35.4%
+22.2%$702.18M$1.08B12.103,141News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
ULH
Universal Logistics
3.1446 of 5 stars
$24.29
-4.9%
$29.00
+19.4%
-39.6%$672.72M$1.85B10.4210,821Positive News
CVLG
Covenant Logistics Group
3.3835 of 5 stars
$23.91
-0.1%
$33.00
+38.0%
-10.4%$598.73M$1.14B18.254,800Positive News
ASC
Ardmore Shipping
3.7735 of 5 stars
$12.36
+2.6%
$12.67
+2.5%
-28.6%$489.11M$405.78M12.00990Short Interest ↑
FIP
FTAI Infrastructure
2.7508 of 5 stars
$4.04
-3.3%
$12.00
+197.0%
-48.4%$481.07M$331.50M-2.64600Positive News
SB
Safe Bulkers
3.1571 of 5 stars
$4.47
+0.3%
$4.47
+0.0%
-2.4%$455.32M$307.63M10.38920Positive News

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