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The Case for and Against Dorian LPG Ltd. (LPG)

January 30, 2018 09:22·

Dorian LPG Ltd. (LPG) shares fell and closed the day at $7.36, with the percent change of -4.42%.

At the time of writing, Dorian LPG Ltd. (NYSE:LPG) has a Piotroski F-Score of 3. The stock grabbed 15 new institutional investments totaling 244,981 shares while 27 institutional investors sold out their entire positions totaling 351,746 shares. Looking at the stock's movement on the chart, Dorian LPG Ltd. recorded a 52-week high of $12.50. Finally, State Street Corp boosted its holdings in shares of Dorian LPG by 9.2% during the 2nd quarter.

The SMA20 for the stock is at -6.36 percent, SMA50 stands at -5.36 percent, while SMA200 is -5.92 Percent, according to Finviz reported data. The company's a year ago sales total was 35770. Dorian LPG Ltd. (NYSE:LPG) has a 20-Day average volume of 567196. Private Management Group Inc. now owns 420,685 shares of the shipping company's stock worth $2,869,000 after acquiring an additional 18,682 shares during the period. Investors seem to be very interested in what happens to the stocks of these two companies but do investors favor one over the other?

The stock now shows its YTD (Year to Date) performance of -10.46 percent, whereas its Weekly performance stands at 0.82%. The shares were bought at an average price of $7.00 per share, for a total transaction of $70,000.00. Similar statistics are true for the second largest owner, Wellington Management Group Llp, which owns 6,648,244 shares of the stock are valued at $48.93 million. The acquisition was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. We will analyze the growth, profitability, risk, valuation, and insider trends of both companies and see which one investors prefer. The stock's 52-week range is $6.20 to $12.50, and its 3-month range is $6.88 to $8.72. The company has a current ratio of 0.56, a quick ratio of 0.55 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.62. The firm has a market capitalization of $424.39, a price-to-earnings ratio of -35.05 and a beta of 1.20.

Dorian LPG Ltd. (NYSE:LPG) reported its EPS in the last quarter as $-0.23/Share beating the analyst estimate of $-0.26/Share by a difference of $0.03. Dorian LPG had a negative return on equity of 4.06% and a negative net margin of 7.30%. The company had revenue of $34.73 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $31.13 million. However the company reported $-0.21 earnings per share for the same quarter during previous year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned ($0.25) earnings per share. analysts predict that Dorian LPG Ltd will post -0.66 earnings per share for the current year.

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A number of hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in LPG.

When looking at the investment recommendation on say a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being a strong buy, 3 a hold, and 5 a sell), LPG is given a 2.50 while 1.90 placed for STNG. Finally, DNB Markets lowered Dorian LPG from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Friday, October 27th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have issued a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the company. The company has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of $9.17.

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Many analysts have provided their estimated foresights on Dorian LPG Ltd. Earnings, with 5 analysts believing the company would generate an Average Estimate of $-0.17.

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