NVGS vs. STNG, TRMD, ZIM, SBLK, CDLR, LPG, SFL, DHT, CMRE, and DAC
Should you be buying Navigator stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navigator include Scorpio Tankers (STNG), TORM (TRMD), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Dorian LPG (LPG), SFL (SFL), DHT (DHT), Costamare (CMRE), and Danaos (DAC). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Navigator (NYSE:NVGS) and Scorpio Tankers (NYSE:STNG) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
Scorpio Tankers has a net margin of 42.12% compared to Navigator's net margin of 15.68%. Scorpio Tankers' return on equity of 22.84% beat Navigator's return on equity.
Scorpio Tankers has higher revenue and earnings than Navigator. Scorpio Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Navigator, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Navigator pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Scorpio Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Navigator pays out 17.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scorpio Tankers pays out 14.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Scorpio Tankers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
19.0% of Navigator shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.6% of Scorpio Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Navigator shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Scorpio Tankers shares are owned 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.
Navigator has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scorpio Tankers has a beta of 0.18, meaning that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Scorpio Tankers had 1 more articles in the media than Navigator. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Scorpio Tankers and 3 mentions for Navigator. Scorpio Tankers' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Navigator's score of 0.38 indicating that Scorpio Tankers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Navigator currently has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.35%. Scorpio Tankers has a consensus price target of $80.17, indicating a potential downside of 2.32%. Given Navigator's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Navigator is more favorable than Scorpio Tankers.
Scorpio Tankers received 233 more outperform votes than Navigator when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.71% of users gave Navigator an outperform vote while only 66.59% of users gave Scorpio Tankers an outperform vote.
Summary
Scorpio Tankers beats Navigator on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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