ASC vs. EGLE, TK, TNP, GSL, SB, GNK, OSG, CPLP, SMHI, and PANL
Should you be buying Ardmore Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardmore Shipping include Eagle Bulk Shipping (EGLE), Teekay (TK), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Safe Bulkers (SB), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), and Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Ardmore Shipping (NYSE:ASC) and Eagle Bulk Shipping (NASDAQ:EGLE) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Ardmore Shipping has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Bulk Shipping has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ardmore Shipping had 3 more articles in the media than Eagle Bulk Shipping. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ardmore Shipping and 1 mentions for Eagle Bulk Shipping. Ardmore Shipping's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Eagle Bulk Shipping's score of 0.00 indicating that Ardmore Shipping is being referred to more favorably in the media.
62.2% of Ardmore Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of Eagle Bulk Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Eagle Bulk Shipping shares are held by 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.
Ardmore Shipping currently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.38%. Eagle Bulk Shipping has a consensus target price of $56.75, suggesting a potential downside of 9.35%. Given Ardmore Shipping's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ardmore Shipping is more favorable than Eagle Bulk Shipping.
Ardmore Shipping pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Eagle Bulk Shipping pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Ardmore Shipping pays out 30.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eagle Bulk Shipping pays out 156.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ardmore Shipping is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ardmore Shipping received 111 more outperform votes than Eagle Bulk Shipping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.78% of users gave Ardmore Shipping an outperform vote while only 57.04% of users gave Eagle Bulk Shipping an outperform vote.
Ardmore Shipping has higher revenue and earnings than Eagle Bulk Shipping. Ardmore Shipping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eagle Bulk Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ardmore Shipping has a net margin of 29.50% compared to Eagle Bulk Shipping's net margin of 5.77%. Ardmore Shipping's return on equity of 22.76% beat Eagle Bulk Shipping's return on equity.
Summary
Ardmore Shipping beats Eagle Bulk Shipping on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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