Critical Analysis: Cadeler A/S (CDLR) & Its Rivals

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

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, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Cadeler A/S and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cadeler A/S	$248.74 million	$12.44 million	24.31
Cadeler A/S Competitors	$848.85 million	$123.28 million	2.31

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.

Volatility & Risk

Cadeler A/S has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadeler A/S’s peers have a beta of 0.98, meaning that their average stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Cadeler A/S and its peers, as reported 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	300	1783	1904	110	2.45

Cadeler A/S presently has a consensus target price of $37.00, suggesting a potential upside of 85.58%. As a group, “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies have a potential upside of 141.90%. Given Cadeler A/S’s peers higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cadeler A/S has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

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%

Summary

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

About Cadeler A/S

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.