When it comes to making a highly leveraged bet on a tanker market recovery, New York-listed Scorpio Tankers is a popular choice within the shipping analyst community.

The roster of researchers with "buy" ratings on the world's largest product tanker company reads like a Who's Who: Jonathan Chappell of Evercore ISI, Randy Giveans of Jefferies, Omar Nokta of Clarksons Securities, Ben Nolan of Stifel, Magnus Fyhr of HC Wainwright and more.