CPLP vs. DSX, NVGS, GSL, GNK, TNP, ASC, TK, OSG, SB, and PANL
Should you be buying Capital Product Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Product Partners include Diana Shipping (DSX), Navigator (NVGS), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Teekay (TK), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Safe Bulkers (SB), and Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Diana Shipping (NYSE:DSX) and Capital Product Partners (NASDAQ:CPLP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Diana Shipping pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Capital Product Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Diana Shipping pays out 136.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Capital Product Partners pays out 26.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Diana Shipping has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Capital Product Partners. Capital Product Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diana Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Diana Shipping currently has a consensus price target of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.33%. Capital Product Partners has a consensus price target of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 15.59%. Given Diana Shipping's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Capital Product Partners is more favorable than Diana Shipping.
48.7% of Diana Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Diana Shipping has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Product Partners has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Diana Shipping received 6 more outperform votes than Capital Product Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.37% of users gave Capital Product Partners an outperform vote while only 52.50% of users gave Diana Shipping an outperform vote.
Capital Product Partners has a net margin of 18.51% compared to Capital Product Partners' net margin of 11.81%. Capital Product Partners' return on equity of 7.06% beat Diana Shipping's return on equity.
In the previous week, Diana Shipping had 12 more articles in the media than Capital Product Partners. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Diana Shipping and 3 mentions for Capital Product Partners. Diana Shipping's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Capital Product Partners' score of -0.03 indicating that Capital Product Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Diana Shipping beats Capital Product Partners on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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