Critical Survey: Capital Clean Energy Carriers (CCEC) & Its Competitors

Capital Clean Energy Carriers (NASDAQ:CCEC) is one of 54 publicly-traded companies in the “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Capital Clean Energy Carriers to related businesses based on the strength of its profitability, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Capital Clean Energy Carriers and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Capital Clean Energy Carriers	0	0	1	1	3.50
Capital Clean Energy Carriers Competitors	256	1490	1776	82	2.47

Capital Clean Energy Carriers currently has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.65%. As a group, “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies have a potential upside of 26.73%. Given Capital Clean Energy Carriers’ competitors higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Capital Clean Energy Carriers has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares Capital Clean Energy Carriers and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Capital Clean Energy Carriers	24.89%	6.83%	2.26%
Capital Clean Energy Carriers Competitors	32.55%	16.76%	8.78%

Risk & Volatility

Capital Clean Energy Carriers has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Clean Energy Carriers’ competitors have a beta of 0.81, suggesting that their average stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

45.9% of shares of all “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies are held by institutional investors. 13.8% 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 company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Capital Clean Energy Carriers and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Capital Clean Energy Carriers	$393.20 million	$47.21 million	7.66
Capital Clean Energy Carriers Competitors	$803.24 million	$123.94 million	11.50

Capital Clean Energy Carriers’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Capital Clean Energy Carriers. Capital Clean Energy Carriers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Dividends

Capital Clean Energy Carriers pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Capital Clean Energy Carriers pays out 23.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies pay a dividend yield of 5.8% and pay out 37.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Capital Clean Energy Carriers competitors beat Capital Clean Energy Carriers on 10 of the 15 factors compared.

About Capital Clean Energy Carriers

Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp., a shipping company, provides marine transportation services in Greece. The company’s vessels provide a range of cargoes, including liquefied natural gas, containerized goods, and cargo under short-term voyage charters, and medium to long-term time charters. It owns vessels, including Neo-Panamax container vessels, Panamax container vessels, cape-size bulk carrier, and LNG carriers. In addition, the company produces and distributes oil and natural gas, including biofuels, motor oil, lubricants, petrol, crudes, liquefied natural gas, marine fuels, natural gas liquids, and petrochemicals. It serves as the general partner of the company. The company was formerly known as Capital Product Partners L.P. and changed its name to Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. in August 2024. Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Piraeus, Greece. Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. operates as a subsidiary of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp.