TNP vs. GSL, ASC, TK, GNK, SB, NVGS, OSG, NMM, PANL, and SMHI
Should you be buying Tsakos Energy Navigation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tsakos Energy Navigation include Global Ship Lease (GSL), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Teekay (TK), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Safe Bulkers (SB), Navigator (NVGS), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), and SEACOR Marine (SMHI). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Global Ship Lease (NYSE:GSL) and Tsakos Energy Navigation (NYSE:TNP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Global Ship Lease presently has a consensus price target of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.25%. Tsakos Energy Navigation has a consensus price target of $30.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.56%. Given Tsakos Energy Navigation's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Global Ship Lease is more favorable than Tsakos Energy Navigation.
50.1% of Global Ship Lease shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.2% of Tsakos Energy Navigation shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of Global Ship Lease shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Tsakos Energy Navigation shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Global Ship Lease has a net margin of 46.30% compared to Global Ship Lease's net margin of 33.74%. Tsakos Energy Navigation's return on equity of 30.26% beat Global Ship Lease's return on equity.
In the previous week, Global Ship Lease had 8 more articles in the media than Tsakos Energy Navigation. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Global Ship Lease and 5 mentions for Tsakos Energy Navigation. Tsakos Energy Navigation's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Global Ship Lease's score of 0.45 indicating that Global Ship Lease is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tsakos Energy Navigation received 294 more outperform votes than Global Ship Lease when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.92% of users gave Tsakos Energy Navigation an outperform vote while only 59.92% of users gave Global Ship Lease an outperform vote.
Global Ship Lease has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tsakos Energy Navigation has a beta of -0.14, suggesting that its share price is 114% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Ship Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Tsakos Energy Navigation pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Global Ship Lease pays out 16.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tsakos Energy Navigation pays out 6.7% 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. Tsakos Energy Navigation has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Global Ship Lease has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tsakos Energy Navigation. Global Ship Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tsakos Energy Navigation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Global Ship Lease beats Tsakos Energy Navigation on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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