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SPCE vs. ASC, SB, PANL, CLCO, PAMT, FLYX, KNOP, PAL, BLDE, and HSHP

Should you be buying Virgin Galactic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virgin Galactic include Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Safe Bulkers (SB), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Cool (CLCO), Pamt (PAMT), flyExclusive (FLYX), KNOT Offshore Partners (KNOP), Proficient Auto Logistics (PAL), Blade Air Mobility (BLDE), and Himalaya Shipping (HSHP). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.

Virgin Galactic vs.

Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) and Ardmore Shipping (NYSE:ASC) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Virgin Galactic presently has a consensus price target of $19.85, suggesting a potential upside of 647.65%. Ardmore Shipping has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 105.90%. Given Virgin Galactic's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Virgin Galactic is more favorable than Ardmore Shipping.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Virgin Galactic
2 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.80
Ardmore Shipping
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Virgin Galactic has a beta of 2.11, indicating that its stock price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ardmore Shipping has a beta of 0.16, indicating that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Ardmore Shipping had 2 more articles in the media than Virgin Galactic. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ardmore Shipping and 1 mentions for Virgin Galactic. Ardmore Shipping's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Virgin Galactic's score of 0.00 indicating that Ardmore Shipping is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Virgin Galactic
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Ardmore Shipping
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Ardmore Shipping received 303 more outperform votes than Virgin Galactic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.70% of users gave Ardmore Shipping an outperform vote while only 63.23% of users gave Virgin Galactic an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Virgin GalacticOutperform Votes
141
63.23%
Underperform Votes
82
36.77%
Ardmore ShippingOutperform Votes
444
63.70%
Underperform Votes
253
36.30%

46.6% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.2% of Ardmore Shipping shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Ardmore Shipping has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ardmore Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Virgin Galactic$7.04M13.41-$502.34M-$14.55-0.18
Ardmore Shipping$405.78M0.87$133.01M$3.062.86

Ardmore Shipping has a net margin of 32.78% compared to Virgin Galactic's net margin of -3,975.27%. Ardmore Shipping's return on equity of 20.48% beat Virgin Galactic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Virgin Galactic-3,975.27% -88.09% -34.21%
Ardmore Shipping 32.78%20.48%17.25%

Summary

Ardmore Shipping beats Virgin Galactic on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SPCE vs. The Competition

MetricVirgin GalacticTransportation services IndustryAerospace SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$97.52M$10.21B$17.61B$17.69B
Dividend YieldN/A4.47%1.26%3.79%
P/E Ratio-0.1615.5743.2429.96
Price / Sales13.862.365.0124.26
Price / CashN/A25.8529.7617.54
Price / Book0.112.924.764.13
Net Income-$502.34M$467.60M$324.21M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-8.65%-9.92%-9.34%-8.68%
1 Month Performance-18.91%-14.67%-11.09%-9.64%
1 Year Performance-89.15%-11.71%6.45%-4.93%

Virgin Galactic Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SPCE
Virgin Galactic
1.1257 of 5 stars
$2.75
-0.9%
$19.85
+623.1%
-89.4%$97.52M$7.04M-0.16800Gap Down
ASC
Ardmore Shipping
4.7568 of 5 stars
$9.84
-3.6%
$18.00
+82.9%
-46.5%$397.79M$405.78M3.21990Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
SB
Safe Bulkers
4.1934 of 5 stars
$3.72
-1.2%
$4.80
+29.2%
-29.6%$391.19M$307.63M4.48920
PANL
Pangaea Logistics Solutions
3.8302 of 5 stars
$4.79
-1.5%
$10.25
+114.2%
-36.4%$314.03M$536.54M10.18570Positive News
CLCO
Cool
3.0949 of 5 stars
$5.45
-1.0%
N/A-55.2%$292.41M$333.65M8.011,647Gap Down
PAMT
Pamt
0.5657 of 5 stars
$12.27
-2.5%
$16.50
+34.5%
N/A$267.38M$714.65M-8.402,530News Coverage
Gap Up
FLYX
flyExclusive
N/A$3.28
+5.6%
N/A-22.0%$253.61M$327.27M0.00N/AGap Up
KNOP
KNOT Offshore Partners
2.8526 of 5 stars
$6.91
+3.8%
N/A+34.1%$237.34M$318.60M-16.09640Analyst Upgrade
PAL
Proficient Auto Logistics
1.5813 of 5 stars
$8.54
-2.2%
$16.00
+87.4%
N/A$230.70M$135.76M0.00601Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
BLDE
Blade Air Mobility
3.1418 of 5 stars
$2.75
-2.0%
$6.25
+127.7%
-22.1%$219.56M$248.69M-3.99130Positive News
Gap Down
HSHP
Himalaya Shipping
1.2269 of 5 stars
$5.49
-6.0%
N/A-31.7%$218.89M$123.58M11.442News Coverage
Gap Down
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