SB vs. TK, ASC, OSG, TNP, GSL, PANL, DSX, HSHP, SMHI, and CPLP
Should you be buying Safe Bulkers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safe Bulkers include Teekay (TK), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Diana Shipping (DSX), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), and Capital Product Partners (CPLP). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Teekay (NYSE:TK) and Safe Bulkers (NYSE:SB) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and media sentiment.
Teekay has higher revenue and earnings than Safe Bulkers. Teekay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Safe Bulkers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Teekay pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. Safe Bulkers pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Teekay pays out 61.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Safe Bulkers pays out 29.4% 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.
Safe Bulkers has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.72%. Given Teekay's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Safe Bulkers is more favorable than Teekay.
In the previous week, Safe Bulkers had 1 more articles in the media than Teekay. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Safe Bulkers and 2 mentions for Teekay. Teekay's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Safe Bulkers' score of 0.68 indicating that Safe Bulkers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Safe Bulkers has a net margin of 27.85% compared to Safe Bulkers' net margin of 11.09%. Teekay's return on equity of 10.29% beat Safe Bulkers' return on equity.
46.7% of Teekay shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.7% of Safe Bulkers shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of Teekay shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 40.3% of Safe Bulkers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Teekay has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Safe Bulkers has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Safe Bulkers received 44 more outperform votes than Teekay when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave Teekay an outperform vote while only 61.49% of users gave Safe Bulkers an outperform vote.
Summary
Safe Bulkers beats Teekay on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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