SFL vs. TK, STNG, FRO, DHT, LPG, SBLK, CDLR, ZIM, DAC, and CMRE
Should you be buying SFL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SFL include Teekay (TK), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Frontline (FRO), DHT (DHT), Dorian LPG (LPG), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Danaos (DAC), and Costamare (CMRE). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
SFL (NYSE:SFL) and Teekay (NYSE:TK) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Teekay received 95 more outperform votes than SFL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.64% of users gave Teekay an outperform vote while only 56.84% of users gave SFL an outperform vote.
28.6% of SFL shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.7% of Teekay shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of Teekay shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SFL has a net margin of 11.16% compared to Teekay's net margin of 10.28%. Teekay's return on equity of 9.07% beat SFL's return on equity.
Teekay has higher revenue and earnings than SFL. Teekay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SFL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SFL had 4 more articles in the media than Teekay. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for SFL and 3 mentions for Teekay. SFL's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Teekay's score of -0.30 indicating that SFL is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SFL has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teekay has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SFL currently has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential downside of 11.14%. Given SFL's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe SFL is more favorable than Teekay.
Summary
Teekay beats SFL on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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