Contrasting Hafnia (HAFN) and The Competition

Hafnia (NYSE:HAFN) is one of 35 public companies in the “Transportation services” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Hafnia to related companies based on the strength of its earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Hafnia and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hafnia	0	0	1	0	3.00
Hafnia Competitors	135	1078	2049	36	2.60

Hafnia presently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 46.09%. As a group, “Transportation services” companies have a potential downside of 2.44%. Given Hafnia’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Hafnia is more favorable than its rivals.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Hafnia and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hafnia	$2.97 billion	$793.28 million	4.36
Hafnia Competitors	$3.91 billion	$293.80 million	-4,916.27

Hafnia’s rivals have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Hafnia. Hafnia is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Hafnia and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hafnia	47.30%	34.28%	20.51%
Hafnia Competitors	-1,871.63%	-1,186.85%	-14.99%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

67.5% of shares of all “Transportation services” companies are held by institutional investors. 10.8% of shares of all “Transportation services” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Hafnia pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 23.7%. Hafnia pays out 103.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. As a group, “Transportation services” companies pay a dividend yield of 0.9% and pay out 27.0% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Hafnia beats its rivals on 9 of the 14 factors compared.

Hafnia Company Profile

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.