Contrasting Pangaea Logistics Solutions (NASDAQ:PANL) & COSCO SHIPPING (OTCMKTS:CICOY)

Pangaea Logistics Solutions (NASDAQ:PANL) and COSCO SHIPPING (OTCMKTS:CICOY) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.

Dividends

Pangaea Logistics Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. COSCO SHIPPING pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Pangaea Logistics Solutions pays out 36.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

60.2% of Pangaea Logistics Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 16.7% of Pangaea Logistics Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Pangaea Logistics Solutions and COSCO SHIPPING”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pangaea Logistics Solutions	$679.82 million	0.71	$19.37 million	$0.55	13.51
COSCO SHIPPING	$30.54 billion	1.02	$4.29 billion	N/A	N/A

COSCO SHIPPING has higher revenue and earnings than Pangaea Logistics Solutions.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Pangaea Logistics Solutions and COSCO SHIPPING, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pangaea Logistics Solutions	0	2	1	0	2.33
COSCO SHIPPING	1	2	0	0	1.67

Pangaea Logistics Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.13%. Given Pangaea Logistics Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Pangaea Logistics Solutions is more favorable than COSCO SHIPPING.

Profitability

This table compares Pangaea Logistics Solutions and COSCO SHIPPING’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pangaea Logistics Solutions	5.10%	5.71%	2.89%
COSCO SHIPPING	N/A	N/A	N/A

Volatility and Risk

Pangaea Logistics Solutions has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, COSCO SHIPPING has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pangaea Logistics Solutions beats COSCO SHIPPING on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Pangaea Logistics Solutions

Pangaea Logistics Solutions, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides seaborne dry bulk logistics and transportation services to industrial customers worldwide. It offers various dry bulk cargoes, such as grains, coal, iron ore, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, bauxite, alumina, cement clinker, dolomite, and limestone. The company's ocean logistics services comprise cargo loading, cargo discharge, vessel chartering, voyage planning, and technical vessel management. It owns and operates a fleet of vessels. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island.

About COSCO SHIPPING

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings Co., Ltd., an investment holding company, engages in the container shipping, managing and operating container terminals, and other terminal related businesses in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Mainland China, and internationally. It operates through Container Shipping Business and Terminal Business segments. The company offers freight forwarding and transportation, vessel chartering, container transportation, marine, vessel management and manning, cargo and liner agency, logistics, document, shipping agency and other sea transport, container stack, cargo storage, and cargo transportation services. It is also involved in the design and manufacture of computer software, as well as provision of technology services and solutions; asset management business; and operation of terminals. The company was formerly known as China COSCO Holdings Company Limited and changed its name to COSCO SHIPPING Holdings Co., Ltd. in November 2016. COSCO SHIPPING Holdings Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China.