GSL vs. TRMD, ZIM, SBLK, CDLR, SFL, LPG, DHT, CMRE, DAC, and NMM
Should you be buying Global Ship Lease stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Ship Lease include TORM (TRMD), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), SFL (SFL), Dorian LPG (LPG), DHT (DHT), Costamare (CMRE), Danaos (DAC), and Navios Maritime Partners (NMM). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
TORM (NASDAQ:TRMD) and Global Ship Lease (NYSE:GSL) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
TORM has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Ship Lease has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Ship Lease has a net margin of 46.30% compared to Global Ship Lease's net margin of 42.64%. Global Ship Lease's return on equity of 36.99% beat TORM's return on equity.
73.9% of TORM shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.1% of Global Ship Lease shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of TORM shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
TORM has higher revenue and earnings than Global Ship Lease. Global Ship Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TORM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Global Ship Lease received 141 more outperform votes than TORM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.08% of users gave Global Ship Lease an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave TORM an outperform vote.
TORM pays an annual dividend of $4.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%. Global Ship Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. TORM pays out 58.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Global Ship Lease pays out 16.9% 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. Global Ship Lease has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Global Ship Lease has a consensus price target of $29.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.21%. Given TORM's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Global Ship Lease is more favorable than TORM.
In the previous week, Global Ship Lease had 2 more articles in the media than TORM. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Global Ship Lease and 3 mentions for TORM. Global Ship Lease's average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat TORM's score of 0.90 indicating that TORM is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
TORM and Global Ship Lease tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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