Head-To-Head Review: Cadeler A/S (CDLR) versus 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 rivals? We will compare Cadeler A/S to similar companies based on the strength of its risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cadeler A/S	$248.74 million	$12.44 million	24.41
Cadeler A/S Competitors	$848.74 million	$123.28 million	2.25

Cadeler A/S’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Cadeler A/S. Cadeler A/S is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Cadeler A/S and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cadeler A/S	0	0	1	0	3.00
Cadeler A/S Competitors	297	1772	1904	108	2.45

Cadeler A/S currently has a consensus price target of $37.00, suggesting a potential upside of 84.84%. As a group, “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies have a potential upside of 122.81%. Given Cadeler A/S’s rivals higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cadeler A/S has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Volatility and Risk

Cadeler A/S has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadeler A/S’s rivals have a beta of 1.06, suggesting that their average share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Cadeler A/S and its rivals’ 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%

Institutional & 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Cadeler A/S rivals 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.