STNG vs. FRO, SFL, TRMD, SBLK, DHT, LPG, CDLR, ZIM, DAC, and CMRE
Should you be buying Scorpio Tankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scorpio Tankers include Frontline (FRO), SFL (SFL), TORM (TRMD), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), DHT (DHT), Dorian LPG (LPG), 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.
Scorpio Tankers (NYSE:STNG) and Frontline (NYSE:FRO) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Scorpio Tankers presently has a consensus target price of $74.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.50%. Frontline has a consensus target price of $26.10, suggesting a potential upside of 6.27%. Given Frontline's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Frontline is more favorable than Scorpio Tankers.
In the previous week, Scorpio Tankers had 4 more articles in the media than Frontline. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Scorpio Tankers and 2 mentions for Frontline. Frontline's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Scorpio Tankers' score of 0.39 indicating that Frontline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 6.0%. 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 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 58.20% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote.
Scorpio Tankers has a beta of 0.18, indicating that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontline has a beta of 0.03, indicating that its stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500.
54.6% of Scorpio Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.7% of Frontline shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of Scorpio Tankers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 48.1% of Frontline shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Scorpio Tankers has a net margin of 40.78% compared to Frontline's net margin of 35.95%. Frontline's return on equity of 26.00% beat Scorpio Tankers' return on equity.
Summary
Scorpio Tankers beats Frontline on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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