SFL vs. FRO, STNG, GOGL, GLNG, TNK, TK, NAT, WMB, KMI, and LNG
Should you be buying SFL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SFL include Frontline (FRO), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Golar LNG (GLNG), Teekay Tankers (TNK), Teekay (TK), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Williams Companies (WMB), Kinder Morgan (KMI), and Cheniere Energy (LNG). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas storage & transportation" industry.
Frontline (NYSE:FRO) and SFL (NYSE:SFL) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Frontline presently has a consensus target price of $26.10, indicating a potential downside of 7.84%. SFL has a consensus target price of $12.33, indicating a potential downside of 13.81%. Given SFL's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Frontline is more favorable than SFL.
Frontline received 230 more outperform votes than SFL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.25% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote while only 57.04% of users gave SFL an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Frontline had 15 more articles in the media than SFL. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Frontline and 2 mentions for SFL. Frontline's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat SFL's score of 0.38 indicating that SFL is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Frontline pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. SFL pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Frontline pays out 51.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SFL pays out 111.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Frontline has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and SFL has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. SFL is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
22.7% of Frontline shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.6% of SFL shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.1% of Frontline 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.
Frontline has a beta of 0.03, meaning that its stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SFL has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Frontline has a net margin of 32.94% compared to Frontline's net margin of 15.21%. SFL's return on equity of 23.42% beat Frontline's return on equity.
Frontline has higher revenue and earnings than SFL. Frontline is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SFL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Frontline beats SFL on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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