Danaos Corp
Danaos Corp (DAC) is listed on NYSE and classified in Marine Shipping, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Piraeus, Greece and has 4 employees. Revenue was $1.04B in fiscal 2025, up 2.8% from the year before. Net income was $494.61M. The share price is 8.7% below its 52-week high of $172.76. It pays a dividend yielding 2.53%. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $7.92M. In that quarter, 4 of them reduced the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +130.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,528.58▲ +152.9%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
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| Year-end price | $94.18 | $80.07 | $74.06 | $52.66 | $74.65 | $21.43 | $9.18 | $10.50 | $20.30 | $37.10 | $83.86 | $76.58 | $68.60 | $38.50 | $46.90 | $52.36 | $62.44 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 2.5% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 3.2 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 13.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 0.0% a year against a 8.3% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
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| UNFUnifirst Corp | $278.99 | 45.5x | 0.4x | 0.52% | 4.98% | $5.05B |
| ACCLAcco Group Holdings Ltd | $2.83 | 70.8x | 6.8x | 0.00% | 14.80% | $39.48M |
| ANPARich Sparkle Holdings Ltd | $2.01 | — | 9.9x | 0.00% | — | $30.35M |
| AXNXAxonex AI Group Ltd | $0.47 |
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| P/S | 0.9x | 1.7x | 1.5x | 1.5x | 1.1x | 2.2x | 0.9x | 0.5x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.6x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 0.9x | 0.5x | 0.8x | 1.1x | 0.8x |
| P/B | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.7x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 0.6x |
| EPS | $26.76 | $26.05 | $28.95 | $27.28 | $51.15 | $6.45 | $8.09 | -$3.10 | $10.70 | -$46.76 | $14.98 | -$0.56 | $4.76 | -$13.44 | $1.68 | -$19.04 | $9.24 |
| Dividend yield | 4.06% | 1.81% | 4.06% | 4.12% | 5.70% | 2.01% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 10.54% | 6.35% | 12.48% | 10.54% | 11.00% | 2.93% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 18.57% | 47.45% | 49.80% | 59.19% | 56.30% | 152.70% | 33.27% | 29.35% | -7.18% | 18.57% | -73.48% | 20.60% | -0.71% | 6.38% | -17.86% | 2.87% | -28.45% | 11.30% |
| ROE | 13.03% | 13.03% | 14.75% | 19.11% | 21.84% | 50.42% | 14.83% | 14.89% | -4.77% | 15.29% | -75.08% | 13.90% | -0.57% | 6.27% | -23.89% | 3.04% | -26.08% | 8.90% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+247.6% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 0.4x |
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| -227.11% |
| $6.97M |
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