SPCE vs. SB, PAMT, CLCO, PANL, FLYX, KNOP, PAL, ESEA, BLDE, and GASS
Should you be buying Virgin Galactic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virgin Galactic include Safe Bulkers (SB), Pamt (PAMT), Cool (CLCO), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), flyExclusive (FLYX), KNOT Offshore Partners (KNOP), Proficient Auto Logistics (PAL), Euroseas (ESEA), Blade Air Mobility (BLDE), and StealthGas (GASS). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Virgin Galactic vs.
Safe Bulkers (NYSE:SB) and Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
21.7% of Safe Bulkers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.6% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.3% of Safe Bulkers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Safe Bulkers presently has a consensus target price of $4.80, indicating a potential upside of 41.59%. Virgin Galactic has a consensus target price of $19.85, indicating a potential upside of 584.48%. Given Virgin Galactic's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Virgin Galactic is more favorable than Safe Bulkers.
Safe Bulkers has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virgin Galactic has a beta of 2.11, suggesting that its share price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Virgin Galactic had 12 more articles in the media than Safe Bulkers. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Virgin Galactic and 2 mentions for Safe Bulkers. Safe Bulkers' average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Virgin Galactic's score of 0.70 indicating that Safe Bulkers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Safe Bulkers has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Safe Bulkers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Safe Bulkers has a net margin of 31.65% compared to Virgin Galactic's net margin of -3,975.27%. Safe Bulkers' return on equity of 10.04% beat Virgin Galactic's return on equity.
Safe Bulkers received 244 more outperform votes than Virgin Galactic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.23% of users gave Virgin Galactic an outperform vote while only 61.31% of users gave Safe Bulkers an outperform vote.
Summary
Safe Bulkers beats Virgin Galactic on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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