ESEA vs. SHIP, SMHI, TOPS, NM, PSHG, GSL, CPLP, GNK, TNP, and ASC
Should you be buying Euroseas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Euroseas include Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Top Ships (TOPS), Navios Maritime (NM), Performance Shipping (PSHG), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), and Ardmore Shipping (ASC). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Euroseas (NASDAQ:ESEA) and Seanergy Maritime (NASDAQ:SHIP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
Euroseas pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Seanergy Maritime pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Euroseas pays out 15.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Seanergy Maritime pays out 12.5% 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.
6.3% of Euroseas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.4% of Seanergy Maritime shares are owned by institutional investors. 55.9% of Euroseas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Seanergy Maritime shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Seanergy Maritime had 1 more articles in the media than Euroseas. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Seanergy Maritime and 1 mentions for Euroseas. Seanergy Maritime's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Euroseas' score of 0.59 indicating that Seanergy Maritime is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Seanergy Maritime received 213 more outperform votes than Euroseas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.74% of users gave Seanergy Maritime an outperform vote while only 64.71% of users gave Euroseas an outperform vote.
Seanergy Maritime has a consensus target price of $12.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.13%. Given Seanergy Maritime's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Seanergy Maritime is more favorable than Euroseas.
Euroseas has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seanergy Maritime has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Euroseas has higher revenue and earnings than Seanergy Maritime. Euroseas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seanergy Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Euroseas has a net margin of 54.50% compared to Seanergy Maritime's net margin of 12.06%. Euroseas' return on equity of 39.84% beat Seanergy Maritime's return on equity.
Summary
Seanergy Maritime beats Euroseas on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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