KNOP vs. CLCO, OMEX, EDRY, USEA, DLNG, FLNG, RCL, CCL, BIP, and KEX
Should you be buying KNOT Offshore Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KNOT Offshore Partners include Cool (CLCO), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), EuroDry (EDRY), United Maritime (USEA), Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG), FLEX LNG (FLNG), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), and Kirby (KEX). These companies are all part of the "water transportation" industry.
Cool (NYSE:CLCO) and KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Cool had 8 more articles in the media than KNOT Offshore Partners. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Cool and 1 mentions for KNOT Offshore Partners. Cool's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat KNOT Offshore Partners' score of 0.15 indicating that KNOT Offshore Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cool has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KNOT Offshore Partners has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cool has higher revenue and earnings than KNOT Offshore Partners.
Cool pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.3%. KNOT Offshore Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. KNOT Offshore Partners pays out -13.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Cool has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Cool's net margin of -8.64%. Cool's return on equity of 4.57% beat KNOT Offshore Partners' return on equity.
20.7% of Cool shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.8% of KNOT Offshore Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
KNOT Offshore Partners received 310 more outperform votes than Cool when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Cool an outperform vote while only 63.21% of users gave KNOT Offshore Partners an outperform vote.
Summary
Cool and KNOT Offshore Partners tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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