CLCO vs. NAT, KNOP, DLNG, OMEX, EDRY, USEA, FLNG, RCL, CCL, and BIP
Should you be buying Cool stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cool include Nordic American Tankers (NAT), KNOT Offshore Partners (KNOP), Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), EuroDry (EDRY), United Maritime (USEA), FLEX LNG (FLNG), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP). These companies are all part of the "water transportation" industry.
Cool (NYSE:CLCO) and Nordic American Tankers (NYSE:NAT) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
In the previous week, Nordic American Tankers had 17 more articles in the media than Cool. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Nordic American Tankers and 8 mentions for Cool. Cool's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Nordic American Tankers' score of 0.00 indicating that Cool is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nordic American Tankers has a net margin of 37.65% compared to Cool's net margin of 0.00%. Nordic American Tankers' return on equity of 18.12% beat Cool's return on equity.
Nordic American Tankers received 334 more outperform votes than Cool when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Cool an outperform vote while only 50.99% of users gave Nordic American Tankers an outperform vote.
Cool has higher revenue and earnings than Nordic American Tankers.
Nordic American Tankers has a consensus price target of $5.17, suggesting a potential upside of 24.80%. Given Nordic American Tankers' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nordic American Tankers is more favorable than Cool.
20.7% of Cool shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.3% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Nordic American Tankers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cool has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nordic American Tankers has a beta of -0.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cool pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. Nordic American Tankers pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. Nordic American Tankers pays out 102.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Nordic American Tankers beats Cool on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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