Costamare (NYSE:CMRE) & Cadeler A/S (NYSE:CDLR) Head to Head Survey

Cadeler A/S (NYSE:CDLR) and Costamare (NYSE:CMRE) are both transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

53.0% of Cadeler A/S shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.1% of Costamare shares are held by institutional investors. 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Cadeler A/S and Costamare, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cadeler A/S	0	0	1	0	3.00
Costamare	0	2	1	0	2.33

Cadeler A/S presently has a consensus price target of $37.00, indicating a potential upside of 44.19%. Costamare has a consensus price target of $11.67, indicating a potential downside of 29.97%. Given Cadeler A/S’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Cadeler A/S is more favorable than Costamare.

Profitability

This table compares Cadeler A/S and Costamare’s 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
Costamare	19.26%	12.61%	5.74%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Cadeler A/S and Costamare’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cadeler A/S	$117.55 million	19.15	$12.44 million	N/A	N/A
Costamare	$1.51 billion	1.30	$385.75 million	$2.58	6.46

Costamare has higher revenue and earnings than Cadeler A/S.

Summary

Costamare beats Cadeler A/S on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Costamare

Costamare Inc. owns and operates containerships and dry bulk vessels that are chartered to liner companies providing transportation of cargoes worldwide. As of March 19, 2024, it had a fleet of fleet of 68 containerships and 37 dry bulk vessels. The company was founded in 1974 and is based in Monaco.