TRMD vs. ZIM, EURN, SBLK, STNG, DHT, SFL, LPG, CDLR, DAC, and CMRE
Should you be buying TORM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TORM include ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Euronav (EURN), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), DHT (DHT), SFL (SFL), Dorian LPG (LPG), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Danaos (DAC), and Costamare (CMRE). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (NYSE:ZIM) and TORM (NASDAQ:TRMD) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
TORM has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services. ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TORM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TORM has a beta of 0.16, meaning that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500.
21.4% of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of TORM shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of TORM shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, TORM had 1 more articles in the media than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for TORM and 4 mentions for ZIM Integrated Shipping Services. ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat TORM's score of 0.25 indicating that TORM is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TORM has a net margin of 42.64% compared to TORM's net margin of -52.22%. ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' return on equity of 36.99% beat TORM's return on equity.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services presently has a consensus target price of $10.51, indicating a potential downside of 43.87%. Given TORM's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is more favorable than TORM.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services received 29 more outperform votes than TORM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 42.50% of users gave ZIM Integrated Shipping Services an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave TORM an outperform vote.
Summary
TORM beats ZIM Integrated Shipping Services on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TRMD 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 NASDAQ 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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