Shipping Stocks To Follow Today - December 1st
MarketBeat's stock screener highlights seven shipping stocks to watch: Viking, ZIM Integrated Shipping Services, Frontline, Scorpio Tankers, Golar LNG, Star Bulk Carriers, and Global Ship Lease. These stocks are influenced by freight rates, global trade volumes, and commodity cycles, making them cyclical and volatile. Investors seek exposure to global trade and commodity flows, accepting higher risks for potential capital appreciation or income. Viking Holdings, ZIM, Scorpio Tankers, Golar LNG, Star Bulk Carriers, and Global Ship Lease are noted for their recent high trading volumes.
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Viking, ZIM Integrated Shipping Services, Frontline, Scorpio Tankers, Golar LNG, Star Bulk Carriers, and Global Ship Lease are the seven Shipping stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Shipping stocks are shares of companies that own or operate merchant vessels (tankers, container ships, dry bulk carriers, LNG carriers, etc.) and earn revenue by transporting goods and commodities across global shipping routes. Their earnings and share prices are driven by freight rates, global trade volumes and commodity cycles, and they are sensitive to fuel costs, vessel supply (orderbooks) and macroeconomic swings, making them relatively cyclical and volatile. Investors buy shipping stocks to gain exposure to global trade and commodity flows, often seeking capital appreciation or income while accepting higher operational and market risk. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Shipping stocks within the last several days.
Viking (VIK)
Viking Holdings Ltd engages in the passenger shipping and other forms of passenger transport in North America, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates through River and Ocean segments. The company also operates as a tour entrepreneur for passengers and related activities in tourism. As of December 31, 2023, it operated a fleet of 92 ships, including 81 river vessels comprising 58 Longships, 10 smaller classes based on the Longship design, 11 other river vessels, and 1 river vessel charter and the Viking Mississippi; 9 ocean ships; and 2 expedition ships.
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ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM)
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides container shipping and related services in Israel and internationally. It provides door-to-door and port-to-port transportation services for various types of customers, including end-users, consolidators, and freight forwarders.
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Frontline (FRO)
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Scorpio Tankers (STNG)
Scorpio Tankers Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the seaborne transportation of crude oi and refined petroleum products in the shipping markets worldwide. As of March 21, 2024, its fleet consisted of 110 owned and leases financed tanker, including 39 LR2, 57 MR, and 14 Handymax with a weighted average age of approximately 8.1 years.
Read Our Latest Research Report on STNG
Golar LNG (GLNG)
Golar LNG Limited designs, converts, owns, and operates marine infrastructure for the liquefaction of natural gas. The company operates through three segments: FLNG, Corporate and Other, and Shipping. It engages in the regasification, storage, and offloading of liquefied natural gas (LNG); operation of floating liquefaction natural gas (FLNG) vessels or projects; transportation of LNG carriers; and vessel management activities.
Read Our Latest Research Report on GLNG
Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK)
Star Bulk Carriers Corp., a shipping company, engages in the ocean transportation of dry bulk cargoes worldwide. Its vessels transport a range of bulk commodities, including iron ores, minerals and grains, bauxite, fertilizers, and steel products. As of December 31, 2023, the company owned a fleet of 116 dry bulk vessels with combined carrying capacity of 13.1 million deadweight tonnage (dwt) consisting of Newcastlemax, Capesize, Post Panamax, Kamsarmax, Panamax, Ultramax, and Supramax vessels with carrying capacities between 53,489 dwt and 209,537 dwt.
Read Our Latest Research Report on SBLK
Global Ship Lease (GSL)
Global Ship Lease, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in owning and chartering of containerships under fixed-rate charters to container shipping companies worldwide. As of March 11, 2024, it owned 68 mid-sized and smaller containerships, ranging from 2,207 to 11,040 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU), with an aggregate capacity of 375,406 TEU.
Read Our Latest Research Report on GSL
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