NAT vs. TNK, GOGL, GLNG, CLCO, INSW, SNCY, CYRX, GSL, DESP, and HTLD
Should you be buying Nordic American Tankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nordic American Tankers include Teekay Tankers (TNK), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Golar LNG (GLNG), Cool (CLCO), International Seaways (INSW), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Cryoport (CYRX), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Despegar.com (DESP), and Heartland Express (HTLD). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Nordic American Tankers (NYSE:NAT) and Teekay Tankers (NYSE:TNK) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
In the previous week, Nordic American Tankers and Nordic American Tankers both had 3 articles in the media. Teekay Tankers' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Nordic American Tankers' score of 0.77 indicating that Teekay Tankers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Teekay Tankers has higher revenue and earnings than Nordic American Tankers. Teekay Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nordic American Tankers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nordic American Tankers currently has a consensus price target of $5.33, suggesting a potential upside of 38.17%. Teekay Tankers has a consensus price target of $71.67, suggesting a potential upside of 23.29%. Given Nordic American Tankers' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Nordic American Tankers is more favorable than Teekay Tankers.
Nordic American Tankers has a beta of -0.1, suggesting that its share price is 110% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teekay Tankers has a beta of -0.28, suggesting that its share price is 128% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Teekay Tankers received 103 more outperform votes than Nordic American Tankers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.36% of users gave Teekay Tankers an outperform vote while only 51.07% of users gave Nordic American Tankers an outperform vote.
44.3% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.7% of Teekay Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Teekay Tankers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Nordic American Tankers pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. Teekay Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Nordic American Tankers pays out 102.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Teekay Tankers pays out 6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Teekay Tankers' return on equity of 36.16% beat Nordic American Tankers' return on equity.
Summary
Teekay Tankers beats Nordic American Tankers on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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