TK vs. GOGL, GLNG, TNK, SFL, NAT, WMB, KMI, LNG, TRGP, and FRO
Should you be buying Teekay stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teekay include Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Golar LNG (GLNG), Teekay Tankers (TNK), SFL (SFL), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), 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.
Golden Ocean Group (NASDAQ:GOGL) and Teekay (NYSE:TK) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Golden Ocean Group has a net margin of 19.92% compared to Golden Ocean Group's net margin of 11.09%. Teekay's return on equity of 8.67% beat Golden Ocean Group's return on equity.
Golden Ocean Group pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Teekay pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. 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. Teekay pays out 61.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Golden Ocean Group has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Teekay is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Teekay has higher revenue and earnings than Golden Ocean Group. Teekay 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.
Golden Ocean Group has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teekay has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
22.0% of Golden Ocean Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.7% of Teekay shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Teekay shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Golden Ocean Group received 37 more outperform votes than Teekay when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave Teekay an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Golden Ocean Group an outperform vote.
Golden Ocean Group currently has a consensus target price of $12.75, indicating a potential downside of 11.40%. Given Teekay's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Golden Ocean Group is more favorable than Teekay.
In the previous week, Golden Ocean Group had 2 more articles in the media than Teekay. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Golden Ocean Group and 5 mentions for Teekay. Golden Ocean Group's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Teekay's score of 0.46 indicating that Teekay is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Teekay beats Golden Ocean Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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