TK vs. GOGL, TNK, SFL, NAT, WMB, KMI, LNG, TRGP, FRO, and STNG
Should you be buying Teekay stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teekay include Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Teekay Tankers (TNK), SFL (SFL), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Williams Companies (WMB), Kinder Morgan (KMI), Cheniere Energy (LNG), Targa Resources (TRGP), Frontline (FRO), and Scorpio Tankers (STNG). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas storage & transportation" industry.
Teekay (NYSE:TK) and Golden Ocean Group (NASDAQ:GOGL) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.
Teekay pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. Golden Ocean Group pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Teekay pays out 61.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Golden Ocean Group pays out 129.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Teekay is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Golden Ocean Group had 1 more articles in the media than Teekay. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Golden Ocean Group and 3 mentions for Teekay. Golden Ocean Group's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Teekay's score of 0.70 indicating that Golden Ocean Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
46.7% of Teekay shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.0% of Golden Ocean Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Teekay shares are held 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.
Golden Ocean Group has a consensus target price of $14.50, suggesting a potential upside of 24.46%. Given Golden Ocean Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Golden Ocean Group is more favorable than Teekay.
Golden Ocean Group has a net margin of 22.01% compared to Teekay's net margin of 11.18%. Golden Ocean Group's return on equity of 10.57% beat Teekay's return on equity.
Teekay has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Golden Ocean Group has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Teekay has higher revenue and earnings than Golden Ocean Group. Teekay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Golden Ocean Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Golden Ocean Group received 35 more outperform votes than Teekay when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.77% of users gave Teekay an outperform vote while only 59.87% of users gave Golden Ocean Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Teekay and Golden Ocean Group tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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