SFL vs. TK, STNG, FRO, DHT, LPG, SBLK, DAC, CMRE, NMM, and ZIM
Should you be buying SFL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SFL include Teekay (TK), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Frontline (FRO), DHT (DHT), Dorian LPG (LPG), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Danaos (DAC), Costamare (CMRE), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), and ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Teekay (NYSE:TK) and SFL (NYSE:SFL) 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, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Teekay received 95 more outperform votes than SFL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.64% of users gave Teekay an outperform vote while only 56.84% of users gave SFL an outperform vote.
In the previous week, SFL had 4 more articles in the media than Teekay. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for SFL and 2 mentions for Teekay. SFL's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Teekay's score of 0.59 indicating that Teekay is being referred to more favorably in the media.
46.7% of Teekay shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.6% of SFL shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of Teekay shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SFL has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.73%. Given Teekay's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SFL is more favorable than Teekay.
Teekay has higher revenue and earnings than SFL. Teekay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SFL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Teekay pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. SFL pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Teekay pays out 14.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. SFL has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. SFL is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Teekay has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SFL has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SFL has a net margin of 11.16% compared to SFL's net margin of 10.28%. SFL's return on equity of 9.07% beat Teekay's return on equity.
Summary
Teekay beats SFL on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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