TNK vs. FRO, STNG, GOGL, GLNG, SFL, NAT, TK, WMB, KMI, and LNG
Should you be buying Teekay Tankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teekay Tankers include Frontline (FRO), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Golar LNG (GLNG), SFL (SFL), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Teekay (TK), Williams Companies (WMB), Kinder Morgan (KMI), and Cheniere Energy (LNG). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas storage & transportation" industry.
Teekay Tankers (NYSE:TNK) and Frontline (NYSE:FRO) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Teekay Tankers pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Frontline pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Teekay Tankers pays out 7.1% 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.
Teekay Tankers has a net margin of 37.39% compared to Frontline's net margin of 35.95%. Teekay Tankers' return on equity of 30.73% beat Frontline's return on equity.
Teekay Tankers presently has a consensus target price of $76.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.87%. Frontline has a consensus target price of $26.10, suggesting a potential downside of 6.59%. Given Teekay Tankers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Teekay Tankers is more favorable than Frontline.
52.7% of Teekay Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.7% of Frontline shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Teekay Tankers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 48.1% of Frontline shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Frontline has higher revenue and earnings than Teekay Tankers. Teekay Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Frontline, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Frontline received 33 more outperform votes than Teekay Tankers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.44% of users gave Teekay Tankers an outperform vote while only 58.25% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote.
Teekay Tankers has a beta of -0.27, indicating that its share price is 127% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontline has a beta of 0.03, indicating that its share price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Frontline had 6 more articles in the media than Teekay Tankers. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Frontline and 3 mentions for Teekay Tankers. Teekay Tankers' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Frontline's score of 0.39 indicating that Teekay Tankers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Teekay Tankers beats Frontline on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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