Critical Comparison: Crown LNG (CGBS) and Its Peers

Crown LNG (NASDAQ:CGBS) is one of 672 publicly-traded companies in the “Holding & other investment offices” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Crown LNG to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

21.9% of Crown LNG shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.0% of shares of all “Holding & other investment offices” companies are owned by institutional investors. 81.0% of Crown LNG shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.9% of shares of all “Holding & other investment offices” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Crown LNG has a beta of -0.2, meaning that its stock price is 120% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown LNG’s competitors have a beta of 0.03, meaning that their average stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Crown LNG and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Crown LNG	0	0	0	0	N/A
Crown LNG Competitors	128	727	959	18	2.47

As a group, “Holding & other investment offices” companies have a potential upside of 54.43%. Given Crown LNG’s competitors higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Crown LNG has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Crown LNG and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Crown LNG	N/A	-$6.19 million	-0.32
Crown LNG Competitors	$1.10 billion	$85.65 million	79.05

Crown LNG’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Crown LNG. Crown LNG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Crown LNG and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Crown LNG	N/A	N/A	-34.39%
Crown LNG Competitors	-18.97%	-42.49%	-0.62%

Summary

Crown LNG competitors beat Crown LNG on 6 of the 9 factors compared.

About Crown LNG

Crown LNG Holdings Limited develops and delivers tailored offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) liquefaction and regasification terminal infrastructure solutions for harsh weather locations. The company is based in St Helier, Jersey.