Critical Review: Capital Clean Energy Carriers (CCEC) & Its Rivals

Capital Clean Energy Carriers (NASDAQ:CCEC) is one of 57 publicly-traded companies in the “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Capital Clean Energy Carriers to similar businesses based on the strength of its risk, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Capital Clean Energy Carriers and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Capital Clean Energy Carriers	0	0	1	1	3.50
Capital Clean Energy Carriers Competitors	268	1606	1851	85	2.46

Capital Clean Energy Carriers currently has a consensus price target of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.18%. As a group, “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies have a potential upside of 36.37%. Given Capital Clean Energy Carriers’ peers higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Capital Clean Energy Carriers has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Dividends

Capital Clean Energy Carriers pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Capital Clean Energy Carriers pays out 23.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies pay a dividend yield of 5.8% and pay out 33.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

43.7% of shares of all “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies are held by institutional investors. 14.7% of shares of all “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

Capital Clean Energy Carriers has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Clean Energy Carriers’ peers have a beta of 0.80, indicating that their average stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Capital Clean Energy Carriers and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Capital Clean Energy Carriers	24.89%	6.83%	2.26%
Capital Clean Energy Carriers Competitors	31.74%	15.72%	8.28%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Capital Clean Energy Carriers and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Capital Clean Energy Carriers	$360.59 million	$47.21 million	7.24
Capital Clean Energy Carriers Competitors	$673.92 million	$120.80 million	6.14

Capital Clean Energy Carriers’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Capital Clean Energy Carriers. Capital Clean Energy Carriers is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Capital Clean Energy Carriers peers beat Capital Clean Energy Carriers on 9 of the 15 factors compared.

About Capital Clean Energy Carriers

Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp., a shipping company, provides marine transportation services in Greece. The company’s vessels provide a range of cargoes, including liquefied natural gas, containerized goods, and cargo under short-term voyage charters, and medium to long-term time charters. It owns vessels, including Neo-Panamax container vessels, Panamax container vessels, cape-size bulk carrier, and LNG carriers. In addition, the company produces and distributes oil and natural gas, including biofuels, motor oil, lubricants, petrol, crudes, liquefied natural gas, marine fuels, natural gas liquids, and petrochemicals. It serves as the general partner of the company. The company was formerly known as Capital Product Partners L.P. and changed its name to Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. in August 2024. Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Piraeus, Greece. Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. operates as a subsidiary of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp.