Head-To-Head Review: Pacific Basin Shipping (OTCMKTS:PCFBY) vs. Toro (NASDAQ:TORO)

Risk & Volatility

Pacific Basin Shipping has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toro has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

1.7% of Toro shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Pacific Basin Shipping and Toro”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pacific Basin Shipping	$2.30 billion	0.54	$109.38 million	N/A	N/A
Toro	$78.47 million	0.68	$140.64 million	$1.06	2.65

Toro has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pacific Basin Shipping.

Profitability

This table compares Pacific Basin Shipping and Toro’s 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
Toro	176.49%	17.16%	10.30%

Summary

Toro beats Pacific Basin Shipping on 7 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Toro

Toro Corp., a shipping company, acquires, owns, charters, and operates oceangoing tanker vessels and provides seaborne transportation services for crude oil LPG, and refined petroleum products worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Aframax/LR2 Tanker, Handysize Tanker, and LPG Carrier. As of December 31, 2023, it operated a fleet of one Handysize tanker vessel; one Aframax/LR2 vessel; and four LPG carrier vessels with an aggregate cargo carrying capacity of 0.1 million deadweight ton. Toro Corp. was incorporated in 2022 and is based in Limassol, Cyprus.