Despegar.com (NYSE:DESP – Get Free Report) and Hafnia (NYSE:HAFN – Get Free Report) are both transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Despegar.com and Hafnia”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Despegar.com | $706.04 million | 1.79 | $24.49 million | N/A | N/A |
| Hafnia | $3.04 billion | 1.02 | $793.28 million | $1.70 | 3.59 |
Hafnia has higher revenue and earnings than Despegar.com.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Despegar.com | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2.60 |
| Hafnia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
Despegar.com currently has a consensus price target of $17.20, indicating a potential downside of 10.14%. Hafnia has a consensus price target of $8.25, indicating a potential upside of 35.25%. Given Hafnia’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hafnia is more favorable than Despegar.com.
Profitability
This table compares Despegar.com and Hafnia’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Despegar.com | 4.45% | -58.97% | 6.70% |
| Hafnia | 53.44% | 36.90% | 22.38% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
67.9% of Despegar.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Despegar.com shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Hafnia beats Despegar.com on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Despegar.com
Despegar.com, Corp., an online travel company, provides a range of travel and travel-related products to leisure and corporate travelers through its websites and mobile applications in Latin America and the United States. The company operates in two segments, Travel Business and Financial Services Business. It sells airline tickets, travel packages, hotel rooms, car rentals, bus and cruise tickets, travel insurance, destination services, and other travel-related products, which enable consumers to find, compare, plan, and purchase travel products through its marketplace. The company also provides a technology platform for its travel suppliers to manage the distribution of their travel products and access to traveler customers. In addition, it offers loan origination services to its travel business' customers and to customers of other merchants in various industries; processing, fraud identification, credit scoring and IT services to travel business, and to third-party merchants; and Koin, an online payment and consumer lending services platform. The company offers travel products and services under the Despegar, Decolar, Best Day, BD Experience, and HotelDo brands. Despegar.com, Corp. was founded in 1999 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
About Hafnia
Hafnia Limited owns and operates oil product tankers in Bermuda. It operates through Long Range II, Long Range I, Medium Range (MR), Handy size, and Specialized segments. The company transports clean and dirty, refined oil products, vegetable oil, and easy chemicals to national and international oil companies, and chemical companies, as well as trading and utility companies; and owns and operates 200 vessels. It provides ship owning, ship-management, investment, management, corporate support, and agency office services. In addition, the company provides integrated shipping platform, including technical management, commercial and chartering services, pool management, and large-scale bunker desk services. Hafnia Limited is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.
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