Financial Contrast: Capital Clean Energy Carriers (CCEC) versus Its Peers

Capital Clean Energy Carriers (NASDAQ:CCEC) is one of 57 public 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 similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.

Dividends

Capital Clean Energy Carriers pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. 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 5.1% and pay out 28.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Capital Clean Energy Carriers and its competitors, as reported 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	269	1614	1856	86	2.46

Capital Clean Energy Carriers currently has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.92%. As a group, “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies have a potential upside of 38.17%. Given Capital Clean Energy Carriers’ competitors higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Capital Clean Energy Carriers has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

43.7% of shares of all “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies are owned by institutional investors. 14.7% of shares of all “Deep sea foreign transportation of freight” companies are owned by 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.

Risk & Volatility

Capital Clean Energy Carriers has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Clean Energy Carriers’ competitors have a beta of 0.80, meaning that their average share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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	32.24%	16.00%	8.45%

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Capital Clean Energy Carriers	$360.59 million	$47.21 million	7.25
Capital Clean Energy Carriers Competitors	$677.23 million	$120.80 million	4.84

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

Summary

Capital Clean Energy Carriers competitors beat Capital Clean Energy Carriers on 9 of the 15 factors compared.

Capital Clean Energy Carriers Company Profile

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.