GNK vs. ASC, GSL, TNP, TK, NVGS, SB, NMM, OSG, PANL, and SMHI
Should you be buying Genco Shipping & Trading stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genco Shipping & Trading include Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Teekay (TK), Navigator (NVGS), Safe Bulkers (SB), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), and SEACOR Marine (SMHI). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Genco Shipping & Trading (NYSE:GNK) and Ardmore Shipping (NYSE:ASC) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Ardmore Shipping has a net margin of 29.15% compared to Genco Shipping & Trading's net margin of 0.81%. Ardmore Shipping's return on equity of 21.06% beat Genco Shipping & Trading's return on equity.
Genco Shipping & Trading has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ardmore Shipping has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Genco Shipping & Trading presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.85%. Ardmore Shipping has a consensus target price of $21.50, suggesting a potential downside of 3.85%. Given Genco Shipping & Trading's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Genco Shipping & Trading is more favorable than Ardmore Shipping.
Ardmore Shipping received 118 more outperform votes than Genco Shipping & Trading when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.94% of users gave Ardmore Shipping an outperform vote while only 61.78% of users gave Genco Shipping & Trading an outperform vote.
Genco Shipping & Trading pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Ardmore Shipping pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Genco Shipping & Trading pays out 2,733.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ardmore Shipping pays out 47.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
58.6% of Genco Shipping & Trading shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.2% of Ardmore Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Genco Shipping & Trading shares are held by company insiders. 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.
Ardmore Shipping has higher revenue and earnings than Genco Shipping & Trading. Ardmore Shipping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genco Shipping & Trading, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Genco Shipping & Trading had 10 more articles in the media than Ardmore Shipping. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Genco Shipping & Trading and 6 mentions for Ardmore Shipping. Ardmore Shipping's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Genco Shipping & Trading's score of 0.44 indicating that Ardmore Shipping is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ardmore Shipping beats Genco Shipping & Trading on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding GNK and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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