DSX vs. PANL, CPLP, SMHI, HSHP, ESEA, OSG, GASS, SHIP, SB, and IMPP
Should you be buying Diana Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diana Shipping include Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), Euroseas (ESEA), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), StealthGas (GASS), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), Safe Bulkers (SB), and Imperial Petroleum (IMPP). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Pangaea Logistics Solutions (NASDAQ:PANL) and Diana Shipping (NYSE:DSX) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Pangaea Logistics Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Diana Shipping pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Pangaea Logistics Solutions pays out 67.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diana Shipping pays out 69.8% 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.
60.2% of Pangaea Logistics Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.7% of Diana Shipping shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.2% of Pangaea Logistics Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Diana Shipping has a net margin of 19.02% compared to Diana Shipping's net margin of 5.27%. Pangaea Logistics Solutions' return on equity of 10.34% beat Diana Shipping's return on equity.
Pangaea Logistics Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $8.75, suggesting a potential upside of 25.00%. Given Diana Shipping's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Pangaea Logistics Solutions is more favorable than Diana Shipping.
Pangaea Logistics Solutions has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diana Shipping has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Diana Shipping received 24 more outperform votes than Pangaea Logistics Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.08% of users gave Pangaea Logistics Solutions an outperform vote while only 52.58% of users gave Diana Shipping an outperform vote.
Diana Shipping has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pangaea Logistics Solutions. Diana Shipping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pangaea Logistics Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Diana Shipping had 1 more articles in the media than Pangaea Logistics Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Diana Shipping and 2 mentions for Pangaea Logistics Solutions. Diana Shipping's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Pangaea Logistics Solutions' score of 0.20 indicating that Pangaea Logistics Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Pangaea Logistics Solutions beats Diana Shipping on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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