Head to Head Contrast: Pacific Basin Shipping (PCFBF) and Its Peers

Institutional and Insider Ownership

37.4% of Pacific Basin Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.4% of shares of all “Marine Transportation” companies are held by institutional investors. 27.0% of shares of all “Marine Transportation” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Pacific Basin Shipping and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pacific Basin Shipping	N/A	N/A	-10.70
Pacific Basin Shipping Competitors	$3.61 billion	$336.19 million	14.39

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

Dividends

Pacific Basin Shipping pays an annual dividend of $0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Pacific Basin Shipping pays out -13.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Marine Transportation” companies pay a dividend yield of 4.4% and pay out 26.9% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Profitability

This table compares Pacific Basin Shipping and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pacific Basin Shipping	N/A	N/A	N/A
Pacific Basin Shipping Competitors	29.03%	12.59%	6.25%

Summary

Pacific Basin Shipping peers beat Pacific Basin Shipping on 7 of the 9 factors compared.

About Pacific Basin Shipping

Pacific Basin Shipping Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the provision of dry bulk shipping services worldwide. The company offers its shipping services that mainly carry major and minor bulks, including grains, ores, logs/forest products, bauxite, sugar, concentrates, cement and clinkers, coal/coke, fertilizers, alumina, steel, pet-coke, salt, sand and gypsum, and scrap. It also offers shipping consulting, crewing, secretarial, and ship agency and management services. In addition, the company is involved in the vessel owning and chartering, and convertible bonds issuing activities. It has a fleet of 266 owned and chartered vessels, including 121 Handysize, 1 Capesize, and 144 Supramax/Ultramax vessels. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong.