ZIM vs. SBLK, DHT, SFL, LPG, CDLR, DAC, CMRE, TRMD, NMM, and NVGS
Should you be buying ZIM Integrated Shipping Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services include Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), DHT (DHT), SFL (SFL), Dorian LPG (LPG), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Danaos (DAC), Costamare (CMRE), TORM (TRMD), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), and Navigator (NVGS). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (NYSE:ZIM) and Star Bulk Carriers (NASDAQ:SBLK) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, ZIM Integrated Shipping Services and ZIM Integrated Shipping Services both had 4 articles in the media. Star Bulk Carriers' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' score of 0.25 indicating that Star Bulk Carriers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services currently has a consensus target price of $10.51, suggesting a potential downside of 43.87%. Star Bulk Carriers has a consensus target price of $53.50, suggesting a potential upside of 105.37%. Given Star Bulk Carriers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Star Bulk Carriers is more favorable than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services.
21.4% of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.9% of Star Bulk Carriers shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Star Bulk Carriers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Star Bulk Carriers received 443 more outperform votes than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.46% of users gave Star Bulk Carriers an outperform vote while only 42.50% of users gave ZIM Integrated Shipping Services an outperform vote.
Star Bulk Carriers has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services. ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star Bulk Carriers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Star Bulk Carriers has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Star Bulk Carriers has a net margin of 18.28% compared to ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' net margin of -52.22%. Star Bulk Carriers' return on equity of 9.77% beat ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' return on equity.
Summary
Star Bulk Carriers beats ZIM Integrated Shipping Services on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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