CLCO vs. KNOP, NAT, OSG, YELLQ, WLFC, PTSI, SAVE, FWRD, PWFL, and PANL
Should you be buying Cool stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cool include KNOT Offshore Partners (KNOP), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Yellow (YELLQ), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Forward Air (FWRD), PowerFleet (PWFL), and Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP) and Cool (NYSE:CLCO) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
KNOT Offshore Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Cool pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.1%. KNOT Offshore Partners pays out -9.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
KNOT Offshore Partners has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cool has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cool has higher revenue and earnings than KNOT Offshore Partners.
Cool has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Cool's net margin of -11.81%. Cool's return on equity of 2.86% beat KNOT Offshore Partners' return on equity.
26.8% of KNOT Offshore Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.7% of Cool shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
KNOT Offshore Partners received 308 more outperform votes than Cool when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Cool an outperform vote while only 63.06% of users gave KNOT Offshore Partners an outperform vote.
In the previous week, KNOT Offshore Partners had 2 more articles in the media than Cool. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for KNOT Offshore Partners and 0 mentions for Cool. KNOT Offshore Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Cool's score of -0.38 indicating that Cool is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
KNOT Offshore Partners beats Cool on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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