INSW vs. TNK, MATX, NAT, KEX, CAAP, ARCB, TRMD, GBTG, HUBG, and SKYW
Should you be buying International Seaways stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of International Seaways include Teekay Tankers (TNK), Matson (MATX), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Kirby (KEX), Corporación América Airports (CAAP), ArcBest (ARCB), TORM (TRMD), Global Business Travel Group (GBTG), Hub Group (HUBG), and SkyWest (SKYW). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Teekay Tankers (NYSE:TNK) and International Seaways (NYSE:INSW) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
52.7% of Teekay Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of International Seaways shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Teekay Tankers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of International Seaways shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Teekay Tankers currently has a consensus target price of $71.67, suggesting a potential upside of 14.43%. International Seaways has a consensus target price of $61.67, suggesting a potential upside of 3.33%. Given International Seaways' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Teekay Tankers is more favorable than International Seaways.
Teekay Tankers has a beta of -0.27, meaning that its share price is 127% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, International Seaways has a beta of -0.05, meaning that its share price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, International Seaways had 1 more articles in the media than Teekay Tankers. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for International Seaways and 8 mentions for Teekay Tankers. International Seaways' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Teekay Tankers' score of 0.26 indicating that Teekay Tankers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Teekay Tankers received 244 more outperform votes than International Seaways when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.36% of users gave Teekay Tankers an outperform vote while only 59.20% of users gave International Seaways an outperform vote.
Teekay Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. International Seaways pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Teekay Tankers pays out 6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. International Seaways pays out 4.3% 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. Teekay Tankers has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Teekay Tankers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
International Seaways has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Teekay Tankers. Teekay Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than International Seaways, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
International Seaways has a net margin of 51.92% compared to International Seaways' net margin of 37.65%. International Seaways' return on equity of 36.16% beat Teekay Tankers' return on equity.
Summary
Teekay Tankers beats International Seaways on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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