FRO vs. STNG, SFL, TRMD, SBLK, DHT, LPG, CDLR, DAC, ZIM, and CMRE
Should you be buying Frontline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Frontline include Scorpio Tankers (STNG), SFL (SFL), TORM (TRMD), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), DHT (DHT), Dorian LPG (LPG), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Danaos (DAC), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), and Costamare (CMRE). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Scorpio Tankers (NYSE:STNG) and Frontline (NYSE:FRO) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
Scorpio Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Frontline pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Scorpio Tankers pays out 16.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Frontline pays out 50.2% 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. Scorpio Tankers has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Frontline has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Scorpio Tankers has a beta of 0.21, indicating that its share price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontline has a beta of 0.06, indicating that its share price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Scorpio Tankers currently has a consensus price target of $74.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.69%. Frontline has a consensus price target of $26.10, suggesting a potential upside of 9.66%. Given Scorpio Tankers' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Frontline is more favorable than Scorpio Tankers.
Frontline has higher revenue and earnings than Scorpio Tankers. Scorpio Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Frontline, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
54.6% of Scorpio Tankers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.7% of Frontline shares are held by institutional investors. 7.3% of Scorpio Tankers shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.1% of Frontline shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Scorpio Tankers received 72 more outperform votes than Frontline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.59% of users gave Scorpio Tankers an outperform vote while only 58.27% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote.
Scorpio Tankers has a net margin of 40.78% compared to Scorpio Tankers' net margin of 35.95%. Scorpio Tankers' return on equity of 26.00% beat Frontline's return on equity.
In the previous week, Scorpio Tankers had 2 more articles in the media than Frontline. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Scorpio Tankers and 2 mentions for Frontline. Scorpio Tankers' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Frontline's score of 0.84 indicating that Frontline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Scorpio Tankers beats Frontline on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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