Overseas Shipholding Group (NYSE: OSG) and Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 (NYSE:GNK) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.
Risk & Volatility
Overseas Shipholding Group has a beta of 1.81, suggesting that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Overseas Shipholding Group and Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Overseas Shipholding Group | -71.11% | 10.95% | 4.39% |
| Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 | -49.36% | -8.98% | -5.62% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Overseas Shipholding Group and Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | EBITDA | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Overseas Shipholding Group | $433.30 million | 0.36 | $125.13 million | ($4.15) | -0.50 |
| Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 | $166.39 million | 2.87 | $4.74 million | ($8.04) | -1.73 |
Overseas Shipholding Group has higher revenue and earnings than Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021. Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Overseas Shipholding Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Overseas Shipholding Group and Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Overseas Shipholding Group | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2.75 |
Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 has a consensus target price of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.96%. Given Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 is more favorable than Overseas Shipholding Group.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
58.8% of Overseas Shipholding Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.6% of Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.3% of Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 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.
Summary
Overseas Shipholding Group beats Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Overseas Shipholding Group
Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (OSG) is a tanker company engaged primarily in the ocean transportation of crude oil and petroleum products. The Company’s vessel operations are organized into strategic business units and focused on market segments: crude oil, refined petroleum products and the United States Flag. The International Flag Crude Tanker unit manages International Flag ultra large crude carrier (ULCC), very large crude carrier (VLCC), Suezmax, Aframax, Panamax and Lightering tankers; the International Flag Product Carrier unit principally manages LR1 and MR product carriers and the United States unit manages the Company’s United States Flag vessels. In August 2014, the Company announced that it has emerged from Chapter 11 as a newly reorganized company.
About Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021
Genco Shipping & Trading Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the ocean transportation of dry bulk cargoes worldwide. The company, through the ownership and operation of dry bulk carrier vessels, transports iron ores, coal, grains, steel products, and other dry-bulk cargoes. The company charters its vessels primarily to trading houses, including commodities traders; producers; and government-owned entities. As of March 28, 2017, its fleet consisted of 13 Capesize, 6 Panamax, 4 Ultramax, 21 Supramax, 2 Handymax, and 15 Handysize vessels with an aggregate capacity of approximately 4,735,000 deadweight tons. Genco Shipping & Trading Limited was incorporated in 2004 and is based in New York, New York.
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