SB vs. SBLK, CDLR, SFL, DHT, LPG, CMRE, DAC, NMM, NVGS, and GSL
Should you be buying Safe Bulkers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safe Bulkers include Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), SFL (SFL), DHT (DHT), Dorian LPG (LPG), Costamare (CMRE), Danaos (DAC), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Navigator (NVGS), and Global Ship Lease (GSL). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Safe Bulkers (NYSE:SB) and Star Bulk Carriers (NASDAQ:SBLK) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Safe Bulkers has a net margin of 27.85% compared to Star Bulk Carriers' net margin of 20.57%. Star Bulk Carriers' return on equity of 12.19% beat Safe Bulkers' return on equity.
21.7% of Safe Bulkers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.9% of Star Bulk Carriers shares are held by institutional investors. 40.3% of Safe Bulkers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Star Bulk Carriers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Star Bulk Carriers had 4 more articles in the media than Safe Bulkers. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Star Bulk Carriers and 4 mentions for Safe Bulkers. Star Bulk Carriers' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Safe Bulkers' score of 0.53 indicating that Star Bulk Carriers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Star Bulk Carriers received 100 more outperform votes than Safe Bulkers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.59% of users gave Star Bulk Carriers an outperform vote while only 61.49% of users gave Safe Bulkers an outperform vote.
Safe Bulkers currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.82%. Star Bulk Carriers has a consensus target price of $31.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.48%. Given Star Bulk Carriers' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Star Bulk Carriers is more favorable than Safe Bulkers.
Safe Bulkers pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Star Bulk Carriers pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Safe Bulkers pays out 29.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Star Bulk Carriers pays out 81.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Star Bulk Carriers has higher revenue and earnings than Safe Bulkers. Safe Bulkers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star Bulk Carriers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Safe Bulkers has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Star Bulk Carriers has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Star Bulk Carriers beats Safe Bulkers on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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