CLCO vs. KNOP, DLNG, NAT, OSG, SAVE, FLYX, WLFC, YELLQ, FWRD, and PTSI
Should you be buying Cool stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cool include KNOT Offshore Partners (KNOP), Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), flyExclusive (FLYX), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), Yellow (YELLQ), Forward Air (FWRD), and P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP) and Cool (NYSE:CLCO) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Cool has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Cool's net margin of -11.81%. Cool's return on equity of 2.86% beat KNOT Offshore Partners' return on equity.
KNOT Offshore Partners received 309 more outperform votes than Cool when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Cool an outperform vote while only 63.14% of users gave KNOT Offshore Partners an outperform vote.
Cool has higher revenue and earnings than KNOT Offshore Partners.
26.8% of KNOT Offshore Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.7% of Cool shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
KNOT Offshore Partners has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cool has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cool had 1 more articles in the media than KNOT Offshore Partners. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Cool and 4 mentions for KNOT Offshore Partners. KNOT Offshore Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Cool's score of -0.22 indicating that Cool is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KNOT Offshore Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Cool pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. KNOT Offshore Partners pays out -9.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Cool beats KNOT Offshore Partners on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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