GSL vs. TRMD, ZIM, SBLK, CDLR, DHT, SFL, LPG, CMRE, DAC, and NMM
Should you be buying Global Ship Lease stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Ship Lease include TORM (TRMD), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), DHT (DHT), SFL (SFL), Dorian LPG (LPG), Costamare (CMRE), Danaos (DAC), and Navios Maritime Partners (NMM). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Global Ship Lease (NYSE:GSL) and TORM (NASDAQ:TRMD) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Global Ship Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. TORM pays an annual dividend of $4.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. Global Ship Lease pays out 16.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TORM pays out 58.7% 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.
50.1% of Global Ship Lease shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of TORM shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of Global Ship Lease shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of TORM shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Global Ship Lease has a net margin of 46.30% compared to TORM's net margin of 42.64%. TORM's return on equity of 36.99% beat Global Ship Lease's return on equity.
Global Ship Lease presently has a consensus price target of $29.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.52%. Given Global Ship Lease's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Global Ship Lease is more favorable than TORM.
Global Ship Lease has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TORM has a beta of 0.16, indicating that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Ship Lease received 141 more outperform votes than TORM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.08% of users gave Global Ship Lease an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave TORM an outperform vote.
TORM has higher revenue and earnings than Global Ship Lease. Global Ship Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TORM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Global Ship Lease had 2 more articles in the media than TORM. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Global Ship Lease and 2 mentions for TORM. TORM's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Global Ship Lease's score of 0.13 indicating that TORM is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Global Ship Lease beats TORM on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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