Financial Review: Cadeler A/S (CDLR) and Its Competitors

Cadeler A/S (NYSE:CDLR) is one of 57 publicly-traded companies in the “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Cadeler A/S to similar businesses based on the strength of its dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and valuation.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

53.0% of Cadeler A/S shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.7% of shares of all “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies are held by institutional investors. 14.5% of shares of all “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Cadeler A/S and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cadeler A/S	N/A	N/A	N/A
Cadeler A/S Competitors	31.45%	15.50%	7.87%

Risk & Volatility

Cadeler A/S has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadeler A/S’s peers have a beta of 0.99, indicating that their average stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Cadeler A/S and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cadeler A/S	$248.74 million	$12.44 million	21.63
Cadeler A/S Competitors	$848.85 million	$123.28 million	2.27

Cadeler A/S’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Cadeler A/S. Cadeler A/S 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Cadeler A/S and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cadeler A/S	0	0	1	0	3.00
Cadeler A/S Competitors	298	1779	1904	110	2.45

Cadeler A/S presently has a consensus target price of $37.00, suggesting a potential upside of 108.65%. As a group, “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies have a potential upside of 164.83%. Given Cadeler A/S’s peers higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cadeler A/S has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Summary

Cadeler A/S peers beat Cadeler A/S on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Cadeler A/S Company Profile

Cadeler A/S operates as an offshore wind farm transportation and installation contractor in Denmark. It also provides wind farm construction, maintenance, decommissioning, and other tasks within the offshore industry, as well as marine and engineering services. The company owns and operates four offshore jack-up windfarm installation vessels. Cadeler A/S was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.