GSL vs. TNP, EGLE, GNK, ASC, TK, SB, NVGS, OSG, CPLP, and SMHI
Should you be buying Global Ship Lease stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Ship Lease include Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Eagle Bulk Shipping (EGLE), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Teekay (TK), Safe Bulkers (SB), Navigator (NVGS), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), and SEACOR Marine (SMHI). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Global Ship Lease (NYSE:GSL) and Tsakos Energy Navigation (NYSE:TNP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.
Global Ship Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Tsakos Energy Navigation pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Global Ship Lease pays out 18.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tsakos Energy Navigation pays out 6.7% 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.
Global Ship Lease presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.04%. Tsakos Energy Navigation has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.37%. Given Tsakos Energy Navigation's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tsakos Energy Navigation is more favorable than Global Ship Lease.
Tsakos Energy Navigation received 296 more outperform votes than Global Ship Lease when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.04% of users gave Tsakos Energy Navigation an outperform vote while only 59.58% of users gave Global Ship Lease an outperform vote.
50.1% of Global Ship Lease shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.2% of Tsakos Energy Navigation shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of Global Ship Lease shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Tsakos Energy Navigation shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Global Ship Lease has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tsakos Energy Navigation has a beta of -0.14, indicating that its stock price is 114% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Global Ship Lease had 5 more articles in the media than Tsakos Energy Navigation. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Global Ship Lease and 1 mentions for Tsakos Energy Navigation. Tsakos Energy Navigation's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Global Ship Lease's score of 0.77 indicating that Tsakos Energy Navigation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Global Ship Lease has a net margin of 45.12% compared to Tsakos Energy Navigation's net margin of 33.74%. Global Ship Lease's return on equity of 29.87% beat Tsakos Energy Navigation's return on equity.
Global Ship Lease has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tsakos Energy Navigation. Global Ship Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tsakos Energy Navigation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Global Ship Lease beats Tsakos Energy Navigation on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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