FRO vs. STNG, SFL, EURN, TRMD, ZIM, SBLK, DHT, LPG, CDLR, and DAC
Should you be buying Frontline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Frontline include Scorpio Tankers (STNG), SFL (SFL), Euronav (EURN), TORM (TRMD), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), DHT (DHT), Dorian LPG (LPG), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), and Danaos (DAC). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Scorpio Tankers (NYSE:STNG) and Frontline (NYSE:FRO) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Frontline has higher revenue and earnings than Scorpio Tankers. Scorpio Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Frontline, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Scorpio Tankers and Scorpio Tankers both had 6 articles in the media. Scorpio Tankers' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Frontline's score of 0.66 indicating that Frontline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Scorpio Tankers has a beta of 0.18, meaning that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontline has a beta of 0.03, meaning that its share price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Scorpio Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Frontline pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Scorpio Tankers pays out 14.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Frontline pays out 50.2% 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. Scorpio Tankers has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Frontline has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Scorpio Tankers has a net margin of 42.12% compared to Scorpio Tankers' net margin of 35.95%. Scorpio Tankers' return on equity of 26.00% beat Frontline's return on equity.
54.6% of Scorpio Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.7% of Frontline shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of Scorpio Tankers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.1% of Frontline shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Scorpio Tankers currently has a consensus price target of $80.17, indicating a potential downside of 1.86%. Frontline has a consensus price target of $26.10, indicating a potential downside of 5.02%. Given Frontline's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Scorpio Tankers is more favorable than Frontline.
Scorpio Tankers received 74 more outperform votes than Frontline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.59% of users gave Scorpio Tankers an outperform vote while only 58.20% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote.
Summary
Scorpio Tankers beats Frontline on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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