ASC vs. GSL, TNP, GNK, TK, SB, NVGS, OSG, NMM, PANL, and SMHI
Should you be buying Ardmore Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardmore Shipping include Global Ship Lease (GSL), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Teekay (TK), 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.
Ardmore Shipping (NYSE:ASC) and Global Ship Lease (NYSE:GSL) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
Ardmore Shipping pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Global Ship Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Ardmore Shipping pays out 47.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Global Ship Lease pays out 16.9% 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. Global Ship Lease is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Global Ship Lease has a net margin of 46.30% compared to Ardmore Shipping's net margin of 29.15%. Global Ship Lease's return on equity of 30.26% beat Ardmore Shipping's return on equity.
62.2% of Ardmore Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.1% of Global Ship Lease shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of Global Ship Lease shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Global Ship Lease has higher revenue and earnings than Ardmore Shipping. Global Ship Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ardmore Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ardmore Shipping has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Ship Lease has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ardmore Shipping presently has a consensus target price of $21.50, indicating a potential downside of 3.85%. Global Ship Lease has a consensus target price of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.25%. Given Global Ship Lease's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Global Ship Lease is more favorable than Ardmore Shipping.
In the previous week, Global Ship Lease had 6 more articles in the media than Ardmore Shipping. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Global Ship Lease and 7 mentions for Ardmore Shipping. Global Ship Lease's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Ardmore Shipping's score of 0.46 indicating that Global Ship Lease is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ardmore Shipping received 293 more outperform votes than Global Ship Lease when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.94% of users gave Ardmore Shipping an outperform vote while only 59.92% of users gave Global Ship Lease an outperform vote.
Summary
Global Ship Lease beats Ardmore Shipping on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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