SB vs. UP, BWLP, ZIM, DHT, AZUL, LPG, NMM, NVGS, ULH, and CPLP
Should you be buying Safe Bulkers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safe Bulkers include Wheels Up Experience (UP), BW LPG (BWLP), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), DHT (DHT), Azul (AZUL), Dorian LPG (LPG), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Navigator (NVGS), Universal Logistics (ULH), and Capital Product Partners (CPLP). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Safe Bulkers (NYSE:SB) and Wheels Up Experience (NYSE:UP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.
21.7% of Safe Bulkers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Wheels Up Experience shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.3% of Safe Bulkers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Wheels Up Experience shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Safe Bulkers has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheels Up Experience has a beta of 2.23, suggesting that its stock price is 123% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Safe Bulkers presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.09%. Given Safe Bulkers' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Safe Bulkers is more favorable than Wheels Up Experience.
Safe Bulkers has a net margin of 27.85% compared to Wheels Up Experience's net margin of -44.05%. Safe Bulkers' return on equity of 10.29% beat Wheels Up Experience's return on equity.
Safe Bulkers received 364 more outperform votes than Wheels Up Experience when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.49% of users gave Safe Bulkers an outperform vote while only 43.24% of users gave Wheels Up Experience an outperform vote.
Safe Bulkers has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Wheels Up Experience. Wheels Up Experience is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Safe Bulkers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Wheels Up Experience had 8 more articles in the media than Safe Bulkers. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Wheels Up Experience and 3 mentions for Safe Bulkers. Safe Bulkers' average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Wheels Up Experience's score of 0.38 indicating that Safe Bulkers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Safe Bulkers beats Wheels Up Experience on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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