DHT vs. FRO, STNG, TRMD, ZIM, SBLK, CDLR, LPG, SFL, 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), Dorian LPG (LPG), SFL (SFL), 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 superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of DHT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Frontline has a net margin of 32.94% compared to Frontline's net margin of 29.58%. DHT's return on equity of 23.42% beat Frontline's return on equity.
Frontline presently has a consensus price target of $26.10, suggesting a potential downside of 7.84%. DHT has a consensus price target of $14.33, suggesting a potential upside of 18.46%. Given Frontline's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe DHT is more favorable than Frontline.
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.
DHT received 93 more outperform votes than Frontline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.03% of users gave DHT an outperform vote while only 58.25% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote.
Frontline has a beta of 0.03, meaning that its stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DHT has a beta of -0.34, meaning that its stock price is 134% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Frontline pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. DHT pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Frontline pays out 51.7% 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.
In the previous week, Frontline had 9 more articles in the media than DHT. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Frontline and 8 mentions for DHT. Frontline's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat DHT's score of 0.38 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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