QualityDipStocks / Consumer Discretionary · Marine Transportation
International Seaways INSW
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 15% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well below our fair value estimate, 5% under its Market Value.
Worth knowing
- Operating margin 64%, top 2% of the 1288 we measure
- Dividend yield 7.8%, top 2% of the 1731 we measure
From the data on this page, as of the last close. How we pick these
- Fair value est.
- $200.80+90%
- Market Value
- $111.05price −5%
- Off 52-wk high
- −15%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.32
5 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Repriced or dip?
Dip: business intact
The price is 15% below its 52-week high (Oct 13), but the business held up: net cash (cash minus debt) 0.0% of market cap since the high, shares outstanding unchanged, operating margin 0.0 pts.
Some numbers held up (net cash (cash minus debt) 0.0% of market cap since the high, shares outstanding unchanged, operating margin 0.0 pts), others slipped. The price is 15% below its 52-week high.
The price is 15% below its 52-week high, and the business changed too.
Within 10% of its 52-week high, so there is no dip to judge yet.
The evidence 9 numbers, high vs now
- Revenue, last 12 months$1.3B → $1.3B (0.0%)about the same
- Earnings per share, 12 months$15.62 → $15.62 (0.0%)about the same
- Free cash flow, 12 months$632M → $632M (0.0%)held up
- Operating margin64.2% → 64.2% (0.0 pts)held up
- Shares outstanding0.0% (unchanged)held up
- Net cash (cash minus debt)0.0% of market cap since the highheld up
- Stock vs its sector (Consumer Discretionary)stock −15%, sector median +7% since Oct 13changed
- Price fall vs business numbersprice −15%, revenue/EPS/FCF median 0% (shown, not scored)
- Valuation multipleP/FCF 9.9× at the high → 8.3× now (shown, not scored)
No new report since the high (Oct 13, 2026): the business numbers are the same as then, so this read is capped at 65. Each measure is scored from −1 (business changed) to +1 (business intact) and weighted: revenue, earnings per share, free cash flow, operating margin, revenue growth rate, share count, net cash and the move vs its sector. 60 or more reads as a dip, 40 or less as a repricing. Analyst estimates are not in our data, so they are not used. How to read it
Data-based read, not advice.
Priced in
How much growth the market assumed at the 52-week high, the low and today (a reverse DCF).
At the high ($125.04, Oct 13) the price assumed about −5%/yr free-cash-flow growth; at the low ($46.81, Jan 5) about −11%; today about −8%. The last 3 years delivered 10%/yr (free cash flow).
Dashed line: what the last 3 years delivered, 10%/yr (free cash flow)
| High | Low | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $125.04Oct 13 | $46.81Jan 5 | $105.68 |
| Implied growth | −5% | −11% | −8% |
| P/E | 8.0× | 10.7× | 6.8× |
| P/FCF | 9.9× | 7.1× | 8.3× |
| EV/Sales | 5.1× | 3.5× | 4.4× |
What this means: the higher the implied growth, the more the price already counts on. If today's number sits well below what the business has delivered, the market expects less than its track record.
How it’s computed
Reverse DCF: the same 10-year free-cash-flow model as our fair value estimate (9.5% discount rate, growth for years 1–5 fading to 3% by year 10, 3% after), solved for the growth that makes it equal the market value at each price. For the high and the low we use only the filings that were public on that day, so nothing from a later report leaks back. Market value = that close × diluted shares. P/E = market value / 12-month net income; Price / FCF = market value / 12-month free cash flow; EV / Sales = (market value + debt − cash) / 12-month revenue. Hidden when the share count moved over 20% (split, merger), free cash flow is negative, or the company reports in another currency.
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 3.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 1.0%; bull = 8.5% and 5.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is below even the bear case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, INSW’s free cash flow would need to shrink about 8% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much INSW moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves much less than the market, but its own price swings are 3.2× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.32
- Volatility
- 40% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.10
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.08
How it ranks
Where INSW stands vs every one of the 1,996 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Top quarter on 6 of 6 measures
- Discount to fair value estimate90% · price below our base caseTop 11%of 1,314
- Free cash flow yield12% · free cash flow vs market capTop 6%of 1,391
- Dividends + buybacks yield7.8% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capTop 12%of 1,836
- Revenue growth, last 12 months+57% · vs the 12 months beforeTop 6%of 1,814
- Operating margin64% · of sales kept as operating profitTop 1%of 1,288
- Return on invested capital25% · profit per dollar of capitalTop 15%of 838
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
DCF $200.80 · MV $111.05 · FCF value $34.25
Assumes 3.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew -0.8% a year FY22–FY25; floored at 3%), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $12.67 a share (trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Aug 10, 2026. Net debt $236M, not deducted.
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $200.80, 90% above the price.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 12.0% (price / FCF 8.3×): $632M of free cash in the last 12 months.
GrowthSales grew 57% to $1.3B over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
ValuationP/E of 6.8× vs a 20.7× median for the 341 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
ProfitabilityOperating margin of 64% over the last 12 months.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to 41.0% in FY2025 from 57.4% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
ProfitabilityReturn on equity fell 17 points in two fiscal years, to 15% in FY2025.
GrowthDiluted EPS fell 26% to $6.23 in FY2025.
GrowthSales fell 0.8% a year over the last three fiscal years, below the 5.4% median for the 380 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
RiskReports earnings Nov 5 (consensus EPS $4.60): results can move the price sharply and reset Market Value.
All fundamentals
P/E 6.8 · FCF yield 12.0% · ROE 37%
Valuation
- P/E
- 6.8×Consumer Discretionary median 20.7×
- Price / FCF
- 8.3×
- FCF yield
- 12.0%
- EV / EBITDA
- 5.7×
- Price / sales
- 4.19×
- Price / book
- 2.33×
- Market cap
- $5.3Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $5.5B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $1.3B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +57.4%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −0.8%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $15.64
- EPS growth, last FY
- −25.7%
- Net income, 12 months
- $779M
- Net income growth
- +226%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/agross profit isn't reported (common for service and financial companies)
- Operating margin
- 64.2%
- Net margin
- 62.0%
- FCF margin
- 50.3%
- Return on equity
- 37%
- Return on invested capital
- 25%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $409M
- Total debt
- $646M
- Net cash
- −$236M
- Debt / equity
- 0.29×
- Interest coverage
- 19.7×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $632M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +67%
- Dividend yield
- 7.82%$412M paid
- Payout ratio
- 53%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- +0.8%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $8M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From International Seaways’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $0.1B · Sales +140%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.1B
- Free-cash-flow yield12.0%
- Free-cash-flow margin6%
- Gross margin72%
- Operating margin64%
- Return on invested capital25%
- Return on equity37%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+140%
- Net debt / EBITDA0.3×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $105.68
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$46.81−55.7%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$105.68you are here
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 23$111.05+5.1%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$125.04+18.3%
- Fair value est.base case$200.80+90.0%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 43 · 5 days −7.1%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Next report
Nov 5
- DateThu Nov 5, before the open
- Consensus EPS$4.60
- Year-ago EPS$1.15
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
INSW is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on International Seaways in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Marine Transportation
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.