TK vs. SFL, TNP, GNK, GSL, NMM, EGLE, NETI, SMHI, DSX, and OSG
Should you be buying Teekay stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teekay include SFL (SFL), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Eagle Bulk Shipping (EGLE), Eneti (NETI), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Diana Shipping (DSX), and Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Teekay vs.
SFL (NYSE:SFL) and Teekay (NYSE:TK) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and earnings.
SFL currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.29%. Given Teekay's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe SFL is more favorable than Teekay.
SFL has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teekay has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
29.0% of SFL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.8% of Teekay shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Teekay shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, SFL had 6 more articles in the media than Teekay. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for SFL and 2 mentions for Teekay. SFL's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Teekay's score of 0.19 indicating that Teekay is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SFL has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Teekay. Teekay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SFL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SFL has a net margin of 17.31% compared to SFL's net margin of 10.68%. SFL's return on equity of 10.68% beat Teekay's return on equity.
Teekay received 96 more outperform votes than SFL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.57% of users gave Teekay an outperform vote while only 56.90% of users gave SFL an outperform vote.
Summary
Teekay beats SFL on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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