NAT vs. GOGL, GLNG, TNK, SFL, TK, WMB, KMI, LNG, TRGP, and FRO
Should you be buying Nordic American Tankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nordic American Tankers include Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Golar LNG (GLNG), Teekay Tankers (TNK), SFL (SFL), Teekay (TK), Williams Companies (WMB), Kinder Morgan (KMI), Cheniere Energy (LNG), Targa Resources (TRGP), and Frontline (FRO). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas storage & transportation" industry.
Nordic American Tankers (NYSE:NAT) and Golden Ocean Group (NASDAQ:GOGL) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and risk.
Nordic American Tankers has a net margin of 37.65% compared to Golden Ocean Group's net margin of 19.92%. Nordic American Tankers' return on equity of 18.12% beat Golden Ocean Group's return on equity.
44.3% of Nordic American Tankers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.0% of Golden Ocean Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Nordic American Tankers shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Nordic American Tankers presently has a consensus price target of $5.17, suggesting a potential upside of 24.80%. Golden Ocean Group has a consensus price target of $12.75, suggesting a potential downside of 11.40%. Given Nordic American Tankers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nordic American Tankers is more favorable than Golden Ocean Group.
Nordic American Tankers pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. Golden Ocean Group pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. 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. Golden Ocean Group pays out 129.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Nordic American Tankers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Golden Ocean Group received 38 more outperform votes than Nordic American Tankers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.16% of users gave Golden Ocean Group an outperform vote while only 50.99% of users gave Nordic American Tankers an outperform vote.
Golden Ocean Group has higher revenue and earnings than Nordic American Tankers. Nordic American Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Golden Ocean Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Nordic American Tankers had 18 more articles in the media than Golden Ocean Group. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Nordic American Tankers and 7 mentions for Golden Ocean Group. Golden Ocean Group's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Nordic American Tankers' score of 0.00 indicating that Golden Ocean Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nordic American Tankers has a beta of -0.09, indicating that its share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Golden Ocean Group has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nordic American Tankers beats Golden Ocean Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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