OSG vs. CPLP, SMHI, PANL, DSX, HSHP, SB, GASS, ESEA, SHIP, and TK
Should you be buying Overseas Shipholding Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Overseas Shipholding Group include Capital Product Partners (CPLP), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Diana Shipping (DSX), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), Safe Bulkers (SB), StealthGas (GASS), Euroseas (ESEA), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), and Teekay (TK). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Capital Product Partners (NASDAQ:CPLP) and Overseas Shipholding Group (NYSE:OSG) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Capital Product Partners has a net margin of 18.51% compared to Capital Product Partners' net margin of 13.82%. Capital Product Partners' return on equity of 17.84% beat Overseas Shipholding Group's return on equity.
Capital Product Partners currently has a consensus price target of $20.67, suggesting a potential upside of 26.17%. Given Overseas Shipholding Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Capital Product Partners is more favorable than Overseas Shipholding Group.
In the previous week, Capital Product Partners had 8 more articles in the media than Overseas Shipholding Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Capital Product Partners and 1 mentions for Overseas Shipholding Group. Capital Product Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Overseas Shipholding Group's score of 0.45 indicating that Overseas Shipholding Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Capital Product Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Overseas Shipholding Group pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Capital Product Partners pays out 26.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Overseas Shipholding Group pays out 31.2% 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.
Capital Product Partners has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Overseas Shipholding Group has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
80.9% of Overseas Shipholding Group shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Overseas Shipholding Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Capital Product Partners received 168 more outperform votes than Overseas Shipholding Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.37% of users gave Capital Product Partners an outperform vote while only 59.31% of users gave Overseas Shipholding Group an outperform vote.
Overseas Shipholding Group has higher revenue and earnings than Capital Product Partners. Capital Product Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Overseas Shipholding Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Overseas Shipholding Group beats Capital Product Partners on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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