Contrasting Capital Clean Energy Carriers (NASDAQ:CCEC) & Cadeler A/S (NYSE:CDLR)

Cadeler A/S (NYSE:CDLR) and Capital Clean Energy Carriers (NASDAQ:CCEC) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, profitability and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Cadeler A/S and Capital Clean Energy Carriers”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cadeler A/S	$180.22 million	11.10	$12.44 million	N/A	N/A
Capital Clean Energy Carriers	$447.31 million	2.29	$47.21 million	$1.30	14.23

Capital Clean Energy Carriers has higher revenue and earnings than Cadeler A/S.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Cadeler A/S and Capital Clean Energy Carriers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cadeler A/S	0	0	1	0	3.00
Capital Clean Energy Carriers	0	0	1	1	3.50

Cadeler A/S currently has a consensus target price of $37.00, suggesting a potential upside of 62.35%. Capital Clean Energy Carriers has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.92%. Given Cadeler A/S’s higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Cadeler A/S is more favorable than Capital Clean Energy Carriers.

Profitability

This table compares Cadeler A/S and Capital Clean Energy Carriers’ 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
Capital Clean Energy Carriers	25.79%	9.72%	3.24%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

53.0% of Cadeler A/S shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Capital Clean Energy Carriers beats Cadeler A/S on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Capital Clean Energy Carriers

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.