CLCO vs. KNOP, DLNG, NAT, OSG, SAVE, FLYX, WLFC, YELLQ, FWRD, and PTSI
Should you be buying Cool stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cool include KNOT Offshore Partners (KNOP), Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), flyExclusive (FLYX), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), Yellow (YELLQ), Forward Air (FWRD), and P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP) and Cool (NYSE:CLCO) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, risk, earnings and valuation.
Cool has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Cool's net margin of -11.81%. Cool's return on equity of 2.86% beat KNOT Offshore Partners' return on equity.
Cool has higher revenue and earnings than KNOT Offshore Partners.
KNOT Offshore Partners has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cool has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
26.8% of KNOT Offshore Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.7% of Cool shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
KNOT Offshore Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Cool pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. KNOT Offshore Partners pays out -9.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, KNOT Offshore Partners and KNOT Offshore Partners both had 4 articles in the media. KNOT Offshore Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Cool's score of 0.21 indicating that Cool is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KNOT Offshore Partners received 309 more outperform votes than Cool when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Cool an outperform vote while only 63.14% of users gave KNOT Offshore Partners an outperform vote.
Summary
KNOT Offshore Partners and Cool tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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