GNK vs. HAFN, DKL, CMBT, ZIM, GEL, SBLK, DHT, DESP, INSW, and DAC
Should you be buying Genco Shipping & Trading stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genco Shipping & Trading include Hafnia (HAFN), Delek Logistics Partners (DKL), Euronav (CMBT), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Genesis Energy (GEL), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), DHT (DHT), Despegar.com (DESP), International Seaways (INSW), and Danaos (DAC). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Genco Shipping & Trading vs.
Genco Shipping & Trading (NYSE:GNK) and Hafnia (NYSE:HAFN) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
Hafnia has higher revenue and earnings than Genco Shipping & Trading. Hafnia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genco Shipping & Trading, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Genco Shipping & Trading presently has a consensus target price of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 79.90%. Hafnia has a consensus target price of $6.50, suggesting a potential upside of 45.90%. Given Genco Shipping & Trading's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Genco Shipping & Trading is more favorable than Hafnia.
Genco Shipping & Trading pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Hafnia pays an annual dividend of $0.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Genco Shipping & Trading pays out 68.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hafnia pays out 7.3% 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.
Genco Shipping & Trading received 323 more outperform votes than Hafnia when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Hafnia an outperform vote while only 61.98% of users gave Genco Shipping & Trading an outperform vote.
58.6% of Genco Shipping & Trading shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Genco Shipping & Trading shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hafnia had 5 more articles in the media than Genco Shipping & Trading. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Hafnia and 2 mentions for Genco Shipping & Trading. Genco Shipping & Trading's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Hafnia's score of 1.20 indicating that Genco Shipping & Trading is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hafnia has a net margin of 53.44% compared to Genco Shipping & Trading's net margin of 18.06%. Hafnia's return on equity of 36.90% beat Genco Shipping & Trading's return on equity.
Summary
Genco Shipping & Trading beats Hafnia on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:GNK) was last updated on 4/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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