Seanergy Maritime (SHIP) Competitors

SEACOR Marine (NYSE:SMHI) and Seanergy Maritime (NASDAQ:SHIP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.

Which has more risk & volatility, SMHI or SHIP?

SEACOR Marine has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seanergy Maritime has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, SMHI or SHIP?

Seanergy Maritime has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SEACOR Marine. SEACOR Marine is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seanergy Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SEACOR Marine	$279.51M	0.99	-$9.31M	-$0.84	-11.98
Seanergy Maritime	$110.23M	2.13	$2.28M	$0.80	14.18

Is SMHI or SHIP more profitable?

Seanergy Maritime has a net margin of 20.12% compared to SEACOR Marine's net margin of -10.92%. Seanergy Maritime's return on equity of 12.42% beat SEACOR Marine's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SEACOR Marine	-10.92%	-8.61%	-4.06%
Seanergy Maritime	20.12%	12.42%	6.02%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in SMHI or SHIP?

59.1% of SEACOR Marine shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.4% of Seanergy Maritime shares are held by institutional investors. 14.6% of SEACOR Marine shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Seanergy Maritime shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SMHI or SHIP?

Seanergy Maritime received 353 more outperform votes than SEACOR Marine when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.00% of users gave Seanergy Maritime an outperform vote while only 65.06% of users gave SEACOR Marine an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
SEACOR Marine	Outperform Votes 108 65.06%	Underperform Votes 58 34.94%
Seanergy Maritime	Outperform Votes 461 74.00%	Underperform Votes 162 26.00%

Does the media favor SMHI or SHIP?

In the previous week, SEACOR Marine had 1 more articles in the media than Seanergy Maritime. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for SEACOR Marine and 3 mentions for Seanergy Maritime. Seanergy Maritime's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat SEACOR Marine's score of 0.00 indicating that Seanergy Maritime is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
SEACOR Marine	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Seanergy Maritime	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do analysts rate SMHI or SHIP?

SEACOR Marine currently has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 69.32%. Seanergy Maritime has a consensus target price of $12.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.23%. Given SEACOR Marine's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe SEACOR Marine is more favorable than Seanergy Maritime.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SEACOR Marine	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Seanergy Maritime	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.50

Summary

Seanergy Maritime beats SEACOR Marine on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.