NMM vs. DAC, NVGS, CMRE, LPG, CDLR, SFL, GNK, GSL, DHT, and ASC
Should you be buying Navios Maritime Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navios Maritime Partners include Danaos (DAC), Navigator (NVGS), Costamare (CMRE), Dorian LPG (LPG), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), SFL (SFL), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Global Ship Lease (GSL), DHT (DHT), and Ardmore Shipping (ASC). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Danaos (NYSE:DAC) and Navios Maritime Partners (NYSE:NMM) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.
In the previous week, Danaos had 6 more articles in the media than Navios Maritime Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Danaos and 1 mentions for Navios Maritime Partners. Danaos' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Navios Maritime Partners' score of 0.55 indicating that Navios Maritime Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Danaos has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Navios Maritime Partners. Danaos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Navios Maritime Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Danaos pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Navios Maritime Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Danaos pays out 11.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Navios Maritime Partners pays out 1.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Danaos has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Danaos is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Danaos presently has a consensus target price of $90.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.23%. Given Navios Maritime Partners' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Danaos is more favorable than Navios Maritime Partners.
Danaos has a net margin of 59.19% compared to Danaos' net margin of 30.99%. Navios Maritime Partners' return on equity of 19.94% beat Danaos' return on equity.
19.0% of Danaos shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of Navios Maritime Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.0% of Danaos shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Danaos has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navios Maritime Partners has a beta of 1.96, meaning that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Navios Maritime Partners received 140 more outperform votes than Danaos when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.92% of users gave Navios Maritime Partners an outperform vote while only 55.98% of users gave Danaos an outperform vote.
Summary
Danaos beats Navios Maritime Partners on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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