USEA vs. EDRY, DLNG, FLNG, RCL, CCL, BIP, NCLH, KEX, TDW, and MATX
Should you be buying United Maritime stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Maritime include EuroDry (EDRY), Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG), FLEX LNG (FLNG), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Kirby (KEX), Tidewater (TDW), and Matson (MATX). These companies are all part of the "water transportation" industry.
EuroDry (NASDAQ:EDRY) and United Maritime (NASDAQ:USEA) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.
EuroDry received 192 more outperform votes than United Maritime when rated by MarketBeat users.
EuroDry has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Maritime has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
2.4% of EuroDry shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.6% of United Maritime shares are held by institutional investors. 51.4% of EuroDry shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
United Maritime has lower revenue, but higher earnings than EuroDry. EuroDry is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EuroDry currently has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.92%. Given United Maritime's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe EuroDry is more favorable than United Maritime.
United Maritime has a net margin of 8.02% compared to United Maritime's net margin of -6.22%. EuroDry's return on equity of 5.68% beat United Maritime's return on equity.
In the previous week, United Maritime's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled EuroDry'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
EuroDry beats United Maritime on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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