CPLP vs. DSX, NVGS, GSL, GNK, ASC, TNP, TK, OSG, SB, and SMHI
Should you be buying Capital Product Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Product Partners include Diana Shipping (DSX), Navigator (NVGS), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Teekay (TK), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Safe Bulkers (SB), and SEACOR Marine (SMHI). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Capital Product Partners (NASDAQ:CPLP) and Diana Shipping (NYSE:DSX) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Diana Shipping received 6 more outperform votes than Capital Product Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.37% of users gave Capital Product Partners an outperform vote while only 52.50% of users gave Diana Shipping an outperform vote.
Capital Product Partners currently has a consensus price target of $20.67, suggesting a potential upside of 16.10%. Diana Shipping has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.01%. Given Capital Product Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Capital Product Partners is more favorable than Diana Shipping.
Capital Product Partners has a net margin of 18.51% compared to Diana Shipping's net margin of 11.81%. Diana Shipping's return on equity of 7.06% beat Capital Product Partners' return on equity.
48.7% of Diana Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Diana Shipping has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Capital Product Partners. Capital Product Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diana Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Capital Product Partners has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diana Shipping has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Diana Shipping had 11 more articles in the media than Capital Product Partners. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Diana Shipping and 4 mentions for Capital Product Partners. Capital Product Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Diana Shipping's score of -0.17 indicating that Capital Product Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Capital Product Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Diana Shipping pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Capital Product Partners pays out 26.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diana Shipping pays out 136.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Diana Shipping beats Capital Product Partners on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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