DHT vs. SFL, LPG, SBLK, CDLR, DAC, ZIM, CMRE, NMM, NVGS, and TRMD
Should you be buying DHT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DHT include SFL (SFL), Dorian LPG (LPG), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Danaos (DAC), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Costamare (CMRE), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Navigator (NVGS), and TORM (TRMD). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
DHT (NYSE:DHT) and SFL (NYSE:SFL) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
DHT presently has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.85%. SFL has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential downside of 12.02%. Given DHT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe DHT is more favorable than SFL.
DHT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SFL. DHT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SFL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, DHT had 9 more articles in the media than SFL. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for DHT and 6 mentions for SFL. SFL's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat DHT's score of 0.12 indicating that SFL is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DHT pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. SFL pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. DHT pays out 88.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SFL pays out 157.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
58.5% of DHT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.6% of SFL shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of DHT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
DHT received 325 more outperform votes than SFL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.13% of users gave DHT an outperform vote while only 56.84% of users gave SFL an outperform vote.
DHT has a beta of -0.34, meaning that its stock price is 134% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SFL has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
DHT has a net margin of 28.78% compared to SFL's net margin of 11.16%. DHT's return on equity of 15.52% beat SFL's return on equity.
Summary
DHT beats SFL on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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