Danaos Corporation (DAC)
ValueMarkers Composite Index
78% below intrinsic value ($513)
Danaos Corporation (DAC) — VMCI valuation read
Danaos Corporation (DAC) carries a VMCI composite of 69/100, 19 points above the Industrials sector median of 50. Among mid-cap names, that gap places DAC in the top third on the five-pillar weighting (Value 35%, Quality 30%, Integrity 15%, Growth 12%, Risk 8%).
The DAC insider tape has been silent for the past 30 days on Form 4. Where executives neither buy nor sell, the bull and bear cases lean harder on filings cadence and the next earnings line.
**Investor frame.** Value reads DAC trades at 18.0x earnings, 0% above the Industrials median of 18.0x, which compresses or extends through the 11.0x EV/EBITDA versus a Industrials 12.0x. Quality: ROIC of 18.0% sits 8.0pp above the Industrials median (10.0%). Risk: net debt to EBITDA of -0.7x leaves covenant headroom, the line to track on Danaos Corporation's next 10-Q.
DAC fell 3.2% over the trailing 7 days, with a +0.1% read on a 30-day basis.
Danaos Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates containerships in Australia, Asia, Europe, and the United States. The company offers seaborne transportation services, such as chartering its vessels to liner companies. As of February 28, 2022, it had a fleet of 71 containerships aggregating 436,589 twenty-foot equivalent units in capacity. The company was formerly known as Danaos Holdings Limited and changed its name to Danaos Corporation in October 2005. Danaos Corporation was founded in 1963 and is based in Piraeus, Greece.
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