LPG vs WOR: Which Is the Better Buy in 2026?

Same yardstick, side by side (as of September 2026). Valuation lined up like this is most meaningful for two names in the same corner of the market, which these are. Figures are approximate; verify before investing.

Reading it: LPG is the cheaper of the two on forward earnings, but cheaper is not the same as better. Pair the valuation with growth (how far the forward P/E sits below the trailing P/E) and risk (beta) before you decide.

The metrics above tell you which is the marginally better business. The bigger risk for most people is not picking the slightly worse stock, it is over-concentrating. LPG and WOR share themes, so owning both, or adding either to what you already hold, can quietly push a large share of your portfolio into one bet.

This is the part a generic comparison page cannot answer, because it depends on what you own. Connect your brokerage and Walnut shows your real, combined LPG and WOR exposure, flags overlap with your existing positions, and tells you if adding one would tip you past a concentration you are comfortable with, read-only by default, with your login staying at your broker. Walnut is not an investment adviser.

Dorian LPG Ltd. owns and charters very large gas carriers, each with cargo capacity above 80,000 cubic metres, and moves liquefied petroleum gas (mainly propane and butane) on the long-haul routes that connect export terminals in the US Gulf and the Arabian Gulf to buyers in Asia, India and northwest Europe. The company was incorporated in the Marshall Islands in 2013, is headquartered in the United States, and files 10-Ks and 10-Qs with the SEC as a domestic filer on a fiscal year that ends March 31, which is a common source of confusion when comparing quarters. Its commercial engine is the Helios LPG Pool, a 50/50 joint venture with MOL Energia (formerly Phoenix Tankers, a Mitsui O.S.K. Lines subsidiary) that commercially manages roughly thirty VLGCs from London and Singapore and generated about 99% of Dorian's revenue in fiscal 2026. Dorian describes a fleet of about twenty-five modern VLGCs (six dual-fuel ECO vessels, seventeen ECO vessels and two other modern ships), combining owned tonnage with time-chartered-in vessels; nineteen were owned at June 30, 2026, and around fifteen carry scrubbers.

Full LPG guide

Worthington Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1955 as a value-added steel processor and spent most of its life as Worthington Industries. On December 1, 2023 it distributed its steel processing business to shareholders as a separate NYSE company, Worthington Steel (WS), renamed itself, and kept the WOR ticker. What stayed behind is two reportable segments. Building Products, about 62 percent of fiscal 2026 net sales at ~$861.5 million, makes pressurized containment products (LPG and refrigerant cylinders, well water and expansion tanks under Well-X-Trol, composite cylinders under Ragasco), HVAC ductwork and framing through Elgen, and standing-seam metal roof clips through LSI and Roof Hugger. Consumer Products, ~$519.8 million or 38 percent, sells handheld torches and fuel under Bernzomatic, helium balloon kits under Balloon Time, drywall and precision tools under Level5 and General, and grills and pizza ovens under Halo and a licensed Coleman brand, largely through mass retailers. Sitting outside all of that are the unconsolidated joint ventures accounted for on the equity method: WAVE, a 50 percent interest with Armstrong World Industries in ceiling suspension systems, and ClarkDietrich, a 25 percent interest in light gauge steel framing, plus smaller stakes in SES (49 percent, with Hexagon Composites) and Workhorse (20 percent). About 3,800 people work at the consolidated operations, which run 12 Building Products facilities and five Consumer Products facilities across the US, Norway and Portugal.

Full WOR guide

Both fit overlapping themes, but they are not interchangeable. The useful comparison is which set of drivers and risks you want exposure to.

• LPG drivers: The Hormuz dislocation and ton-mile demand; US export capacity as the swing supplier.
• WOR drivers: WAVE is the earnings engine and it never appears in revenue; ClarkDietrich is the swing factor, and management called it a trough.

A faster-growing, richer-valued name usually swings harder, so it suits a longer horizon and a higher tolerance for volatility; a steadier, more cash-generative business suits a more conservative or income-minded investor. The honest test is which set of risks you could hold through a drawdown: The central risk is that the trade dislocation reverses: management itself flagged that a durable Middle East peace agreement would normalise Hormuz flows, shorten voyages and compress ton-mile demand and freight rates, and it described the prospects for enduring peace as fragile after a ceasefire broke down in early July 2026. For WOR, the most structural risk is that roughly two thirds of pretax earnings come from ventures Worthington does not control, at 50 percent and 25 percent ownership, so an operating decision, a distribution policy change or a partner dispute at WAVE or ClarkDietrich would move reported results without any change at the company's own plants.

Growth-minded investors who believe the theme has years to run tend to accept the richer multiple for more upside; value-minded investors lean toward the cheaper forward earnings and steadier profile. Pick LPG if you believe its drivers more; WOR if you believe its. Many investors hold both, but since they share themes, that is a concentrated bet, not diversification. Decide deliberately and check overlap. For the full detail, see the LPG and WOR guides.

LPG. Fiscal year 2026, which ended March 31, 2026, produced revenue of ~$481.5M, a TCE of ~$52,238 per day and net income of ~$193.7M (~$4.54 per share), so the June quarter alone earned close to three quarters of the prior full year. Adding that quarter and removing the year-earlier one gives trailing revenue near ~$585M and trailing EPS around ~$7.54, which is why the shares change hands near six times earnings in the mid-$40s while sitting close to a 52-week high. Shipping equities routinely carry low single-digit to mid single-digit multiples at cycle peaks because the market prices a reversion in day rates rather than a continuation, and the same arithmetic runs in reverse when rates fall.

WOR. The ~$1.38 billion trailing revenue figure understates the economics, so a price-to-sales ratio computed from it (near 2x) is not a meaningful comparison to a fully consolidated manufacturer. WAVE and ClarkDietrich are equity-method investments, which means none of WAVE's ~$518.9 million or ClarkDietrich's ~$1,160.7 million of fiscal 2026 sales flows through Worthington's top line while their combined ~$134.6 million of attributed profit flows straight to pretax earnings. Adding Worthington's ownership share of those two revenue bases would put look-through sales closer to ~$1.9 billion, and enterprise value of roughly ~$3.1 billion against ~$295.8 million of adjusted EBITDA works out near 10x, though that EBITDA itself includes equity income the company collects as distributions (~$140.0 million in fiscal 2026) rather than as operating cash.

Headline figures (approximate, August 2026): LPG shows revenue (ttm through june 2026) ~$585M, q1 fy2027 revenue (quarter ended june 30, 2026) ~$187.9M, up ~123% year over year, fleet tce per available day ~$75,926 vs ~$39,726 a year earlier, q1 fy2027 net income / diluted eps ~$138.3M / ~$3.24 (adjusted ~$107.2M / ~$2.52); WOR shows revenue (ttm) ~$1.38 billion for fiscal 2026 (ended May 31, 2026), up ~19.7%, equity income from joint ventures ~$134.6 million, about two thirds of ~$201.3 million pretax earnings, fy2026 profitability adjusted EBITDA ~$295.8 million, diluted EPS ~$3.14, adjusted EPS ~$3.37, q4 fy2026 (reported june 23, 2026) net sales ~$371.5 million and adjusted EPS ~$0.97, both below consensus.

LPG and WOR are related but distinct: same themes, different businesses and risks. Neither wins in the abstract; the right pick is whichever thesis you actually believe, sized so you are not over-concentrated in one theme. Walnut can show your combined LPG and WOR exposure against your real portfolio. It is not an investment adviser.