FRO vs. STNG, GLNG, GOGL, TNK, SFL, NAT, TK, WMB, KMI, and LNG
Should you be buying Frontline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Frontline include Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Golar LNG (GLNG), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Teekay Tankers (TNK), SFL (SFL), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Teekay (TK), Williams Companies (WMB), Kinder Morgan (KMI), and Cheniere Energy (LNG). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas storage & transportation" industry.
Scorpio Tankers (NYSE:STNG) and Frontline (NYSE:FRO) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
54.6% of Scorpio Tankers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.7% of Frontline shares are held by institutional investors. 7.3% of Scorpio Tankers shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.1% of Frontline shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Scorpio Tankers and Scorpio Tankers both had 1 articles in the media. Frontline's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Scorpio Tankers' score of 0.99 indicating that Scorpio Tankers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Scorpio Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Frontline pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Scorpio Tankers pays out 14.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Frontline pays out 51.7% 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 has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Frontline has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Scorpio Tankers has a net margin of 42.12% compared to Scorpio Tankers' net margin of 32.94%. Scorpio Tankers' return on equity of 23.14% beat Frontline's return on equity.
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 beta of 0.2, meaning that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontline has a beta of 0.03, meaning that its stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Scorpio Tankers received 73 more outperform votes than Frontline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.59% of users gave Scorpio Tankers an outperform vote while only 58.25% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote.
Scorpio Tankers presently has a consensus target price of $80.17, indicating a potential downside of 0.25%. Frontline has a consensus target price of $26.10, indicating a potential downside of 0.57%. Given Frontline's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Scorpio Tankers is more favorable than Frontline.
Summary
Scorpio Tankers beats Frontline on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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