Diana Shipping, Inc. (NYSE:DSX)

Last player in dry bulk shipping! Best balance sheet but I'm going long conservatively with Diana and aggressively with Dry ship!

Sector bottom.

Will contine to perform well as global economy improves

Best Dry Bulk Shipper with manageable Debt and poised to capitalize the re bounce in BRIC economy

This is a well run company at a good price. At 9.75 it's a buy.

Read this from our own dear blogger Joe Porter: http://beta.fool.com/josephpporter/2013/03/26/rough-sailing-in-greece/27933/?source=TheMotleyFool

That should be 'nuff said; but I would like to especially point out the price to book ratio of LESS THAN 1, severely limiting the downside risk. Also, DSX, coming out of a year-long industry-wide slump, is trading at a large discount to its three year high.

shipping - dry bulk play

Terrible cash flow. Keeps loosing money. High capital requirements, Greece on downturn.

This company has been bedeviling me for a while now, and I'm considering reversing my thumbs-up rating on the stock. The strongest point is the debt profile, which is better than that of any other major shipping company. However, the low cost of borrowing these days would suggest that debt is not necessarily the worst thing to be saddled with in a capital-intensive industry like shipping. Low borrowing costs also mean that other shipping companies may be able to stay in business for longer than they should. That plays against one major reason to buy DSX, which is the expected growth of margins should consolidation pick up. If you look at those margins, they are terrible and getting worse; DSX's earnings trends suggests that it may start losing money soon. So this remains a terribly confusing industry where even the strong points could be weaknesses. I'll be watching this one carefully, and my strategy will be to red-thumb the other shippers while keeping a thumbs-up for the best of the lot.

This will run UP.

Shipping stocks work so funny.

Great solid company with litte debt, will survive the bottom

Least leveraged public dry bulk shipper is ready to expand shipping capacity as competitors struggle to survive through the downturn. Over-capacity likely to last into 2013-2014, and this gives Diana time to consolidate capacity under its roof for an eventual global recovery. This investment will undoubtedly require patience, but at 5x depressed earnings is likely to generate very nice long term returns.

The best dry ship company perhaps; difficult times but a turn around must eventually come and this one is a strong one. Bottom probably not in.

will shipping go away? when it comes back who do you want to own? strong management, low debt, right sized, big dividend (when it comes back) - it never takes as long to come back as people say

RJ pick

Shipping the 2007 pile on, pump and dump. Most of these "shippers" will return to single digits or $0 as the story wears thin,the debt load becomes apparent and money moves to the "newest" pump and dump - solar and alternative energy.

things still need to get across the ocean, whether this company is registered in Greece or not.

Another one of the few drybulk companies with relatively low debt, good P/E and a good place to sit and wait for the industry to recover. A classic "Buy when the sector is getting slaughtered and wait for the recovery" move.