CMRE vs. FRO, STNG, TRMD, ZIM, SBLK, CDLR, DHT, SFL, LPG, and DAC
Should you be buying Costamare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Costamare include Frontline (FRO), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), TORM (TRMD), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), DHT (DHT), SFL (SFL), Dorian LPG (LPG), and Danaos (DAC). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Frontline (NYSE:FRO) and Costamare (NYSE:CMRE) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Frontline presently has a consensus price target of $26.10, indicating a potential downside of 7.84%. Costamare has a consensus price target of $11.67, indicating a potential downside of 27.13%. Given Costamare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Frontline is more favorable than Costamare.
Frontline has higher revenue and earnings than Costamare. Costamare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Frontline, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Frontline had 15 more articles in the media than Costamare. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Frontline and 2 mentions for Costamare. Frontline's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Costamare's score of 0.38 indicating that Costamare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Frontline pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Costamare pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Frontline pays out 51.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Costamare pays out 17.8% 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. Frontline has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Frontline is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Frontline has a beta of 0.03, indicating that its stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Costamare has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Frontline received 136 more outperform votes than Costamare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.25% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote while only 52.82% of users gave Costamare an outperform vote.
Frontline has a net margin of 32.94% compared to Frontline's net margin of 19.26%. Costamare's return on equity of 23.42% beat Frontline's return on equity.
22.7% of Frontline shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.1% of Costamare shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.1% of Frontline shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.2% of Costamare shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Frontline beats Costamare on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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