AIRT vs. OMEX, SFWL, TORO, RAIL, TOPS, EDRY, PXS, BEST, FLYX, and MMLP
Should you be buying Air T stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Air T include Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), Shengfeng Development (SFWL), Toro (TORO), FreightCar America (RAIL), Top Ships (TOPS), EuroDry (EDRY), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), BEST (BEST), flyExclusive (FLYX), and Martin Midstream Partners (MMLP). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Air T (NASDAQ:AIRT) and Odyssey Marine Exploration (NASDAQ:OMEX) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Odyssey Marine Exploration has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Air T's net margin of -4.91%. Odyssey Marine Exploration's return on equity of 0.00% beat Air T's return on equity.
Air T has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Odyssey Marine Exploration has a beta of 0.27, suggesting that its stock price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Air T had 82 more articles in the media than Odyssey Marine Exploration. MarketBeat recorded 82 mentions for Air T and 0 mentions for Odyssey Marine Exploration. Odyssey Marine Exploration's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Air T's score of 0.00 indicating that Odyssey Marine Exploration is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
8.9% of Air T shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of Odyssey Marine Exploration shares are owned by institutional investors. 66.2% of Air T shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Odyssey Marine Exploration shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Air T received 27 more outperform votes than Odyssey Marine Exploration when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.87% of users gave Odyssey Marine Exploration an outperform vote while only 46.37% of users gave Air T an outperform vote.
Air T has higher revenue and earnings than Odyssey Marine Exploration.
Summary
Odyssey Marine Exploration beats Air T on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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