SB vs. TK, ASC, OSG, TNP, GSL, PANL, DSX, HSHP, SMHI, and CPLP
Should you be buying Safe Bulkers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safe Bulkers include Teekay (TK), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Diana Shipping (DSX), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), and Capital Product Partners (CPLP). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Safe Bulkers (NYSE:SB) and Teekay (NYSE:TK) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Safe Bulkers currently has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.72%. Given Safe Bulkers' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Safe Bulkers is more favorable than Teekay.
Safe Bulkers received 44 more outperform votes than Teekay when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave Teekay an outperform vote while only 61.49% of users gave Safe Bulkers an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Safe Bulkers and Safe Bulkers both had 2 articles in the media. Safe Bulkers' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Teekay's score of 0.68 indicating that Safe Bulkers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Safe Bulkers has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% 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.
Teekay has higher revenue and earnings than Safe Bulkers. Teekay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Safe Bulkers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Safe Bulkers has a net margin of 27.85% compared to Teekay's net margin of 11.09%. Safe Bulkers' return on equity of 10.29% beat Teekay's return on equity.
21.7% of Safe Bulkers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.7% of Teekay shares are held by institutional investors. 40.3% of Safe Bulkers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Teekay shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Safe Bulkers beats Teekay on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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