STNG vs. FRO, SFL, TRMD, SBLK, DHT, LPG, DAC, CMRE, NMM, and ZIM
Should you be buying Scorpio Tankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scorpio Tankers include Frontline (FRO), SFL (SFL), TORM (TRMD), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), DHT (DHT), Dorian LPG (LPG), 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.
Frontline (NYSE:FRO) and Scorpio Tankers (NYSE:STNG) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
Frontline currently has a consensus target price of $26.10, indicating a potential upside of 14.47%. Scorpio Tankers has a consensus target price of $74.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.46%. Given Scorpio Tankers' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Frontline is more favorable than Scorpio Tankers.
In the previous week, Frontline and Frontline both had 2 articles in the media. Scorpio Tankers' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Frontline's score of 0.34 indicating that Frontline is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Frontline pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Scorpio Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Frontline pays out 50.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scorpio Tankers pays out 16.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Frontline has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Scorpio Tankers has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Scorpio Tankers received 72 more outperform votes than Frontline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.59% of users gave Scorpio Tankers an outperform vote while only 58.27% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote.
Frontline has a beta of 0.06, suggesting that its share price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scorpio Tankers has a beta of 0.21, suggesting that its share price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.
22.7% of Frontline shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.6% of Scorpio Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.1% of Frontline shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Scorpio 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.
Frontline has higher revenue and earnings than Scorpio Tankers. Scorpio Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Frontline, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Scorpio Tankers has a net margin of 40.78% compared to Scorpio Tankers' net margin of 35.95%. Scorpio Tankers' return on equity of 26.00% beat Frontline's return on equity.
Summary
Scorpio Tankers beats Frontline on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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