Head-To-Head Contrast: Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) vs. Cadeler A/S (NYSE:CDLR)

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) and Cadeler A/S (NYSE:CDLR) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.

Volatility & Risk

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadeler A/S has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock and Cadeler A/S, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock	1	4	1	0	2.00
Cadeler A/S	0	3	0	0	2.00

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock presently has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Given Great Lakes Dredge & Dock’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is more favorable than Cadeler A/S.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Great Lakes Dredge & Dock and Cadeler A/S”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock	$888.28 million	1.28	$73.47 million	$1.07	15.89
Cadeler A/S	$701.71 million	3.37	$317.00 million	$2.51	9.75

Cadeler A/S has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. Cadeler A/S is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

89.1% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.0% of Cadeler A/S shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Great Lakes Dredge & Dock and Cadeler A/S’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock	8.27%	16.46%	6.48%
Cadeler A/S	27.45%	12.58%	5.95%

Summary

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock beats Cadeler A/S on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Great Lakes Dredge & Dock

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. engages in the provision of dredging services. Its projects include channel and port maintenance, channel deepening and port expansion, coastal protection and restoration, as well as land reclamation. The company was founded by William A. Lydon and Frederick C. Drews in 1890 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

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.