TNK vs. TRMD, ASC, DHT, FRO, GATX, INSW, NAT, STNG, TK, and GLNG
Should you be buying Teekay Tankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teekay Tankers include TORM (TRMD), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), DHT (DHT), Frontline (FRO), GATX (GATX), International Seaways (INSW), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Teekay (TK), and Golar LNG (GLNG).
Teekay Tankers vs. Its Competitors
Teekay Tankers (NYSE:TNK) and Torm (NASDAQ:TRMD) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Teekay Tankers presently has a consensus price target of $50.67, suggesting a potential downside of 5.19%. Torm has a consensus price target of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.84%. Given Torm's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Torm is more favorable than Teekay Tankers.
Teekay Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Torm pays an annual dividend of $1.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Teekay Tankers pays out 12.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Torm pays out 35.5% 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. Teekay Tankers has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Teekay Tankers has a net margin of 28.94% compared to Torm's net margin of 24.90%. Torm's return on equity of 15.73% beat Teekay Tankers' return on equity.
In the previous week, Teekay Tankers had 1 more articles in the media than Torm. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Teekay Tankers and 3 mentions for Torm. Torm's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Teekay Tankers' score of 0.87 indicating that Torm is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Torm has higher revenue and earnings than Teekay Tankers. Teekay Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Torm, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
52.7% of Teekay Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of Torm shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Teekay Tankers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Torm shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Teekay Tankers beats Torm on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TNK) was last updated on 9/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff