STNG vs. SFL, FRO, TRMD, SBLK, LPG, DHT, DAC, CMRE, NVGS, and ZIM
Should you be buying Scorpio Tankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scorpio Tankers include SFL (SFL), Frontline (FRO), TORM (TRMD), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Dorian LPG (LPG), DHT (DHT), Danaos (DAC), Costamare (CMRE), Navigator (NVGS), and ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
SFL (NYSE:SFL) and Scorpio Tankers (NYSE:STNG) are both transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
Scorpio Tankers has a net margin of 46.07% compared to Scorpio Tankers' net margin of 13.64%. SFL's return on equity of 27.56% beat Scorpio Tankers' return on equity.
SFL currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.60%. Scorpio Tankers has a consensus price target of $68.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.06%. Given SFL's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Scorpio Tankers is more favorable than SFL.
Scorpio Tankers received 301 more outperform votes than SFL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.58% of users gave Scorpio Tankers an outperform vote while only 56.77% of users gave SFL an outperform vote.
SFL has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scorpio Tankers has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Scorpio Tankers has higher revenue and earnings than SFL. Scorpio Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SFL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SFL and SFL both had 4 articles in the media. SFL's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat Scorpio Tankers' score of -0.34 indicating that Scorpio Tankers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
29.0% of SFL shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.8% of Scorpio Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of Scorpio Tankers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SFL pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Scorpio Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. SFL pays out 121.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Scorpio Tankers pays out 11.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SFL has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Scorpio Tankers has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. SFL is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Scorpio Tankers beats SFL on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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