DHT vs. FRO, STNG, TRMD, ZIM, SBLK, CDLR, SFL, LPG, CMRE, and DAC
Should you be buying DHT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DHT include Frontline (FRO), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), TORM (TRMD), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), SFL (SFL), Dorian LPG (LPG), Costamare (CMRE), and Danaos (DAC). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Frontline (NYSE:FRO) and DHT (NYSE:DHT) are both transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Frontline pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. DHT pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. Frontline pays out 50.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DHT pays out 110.5% 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 raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and DHT has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
22.7% of Frontline shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.5% of DHT shares are held by institutional investors. 48.1% of Frontline shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Frontline has a beta of 0.03, indicating that its share price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DHT has a beta of -0.34, indicating that its share price is 134% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Frontline has a net margin of 35.95% compared to Frontline's net margin of 29.58%. DHT's return on equity of 26.00% beat Frontline's return on equity.
Frontline has higher revenue and earnings than DHT. Frontline is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DHT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Frontline currently has a consensus target price of $26.10, suggesting a potential downside of 10.65%. DHT has a consensus target price of $14.33, suggesting a potential upside of 17.58%. Given Frontline's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe DHT is more favorable than Frontline.
DHT received 94 more outperform votes than Frontline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.03% of users gave DHT an outperform vote while only 58.20% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote.
In the previous week, DHT had 1 more articles in the media than Frontline. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for DHT and 5 mentions for Frontline. Frontline's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat DHT's score of 0.41 indicating that DHT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Frontline beats DHT on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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