CTRM vs. PSHG, GLBS, OP, PXS, TOPS, TORO, IMPP, BANL, MESA, and SRFM
Should you be buying Castor Maritime stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Castor Maritime include Performance Shipping (PSHG), Globus Maritime (GLBS), OceanPal (OP), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), Top Ships (TOPS), Toro (TORO), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), CBL International (BANL), Mesa Air Group (MESA), and Surf Air Mobility (SRFM). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Performance Shipping (NASDAQ:PSHG) and Castor Maritime (NASDAQ:CTRM) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
19.9% of Performance Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.1% of Castor Maritime shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Performance Shipping shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Performance Shipping has a net margin of 63.28% compared to Performance Shipping's net margin of 39.63%. Castor Maritime's return on equity of 33.48% beat Performance Shipping's return on equity.
Castor Maritime received 10 more outperform votes than Performance Shipping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 87.50% of users gave Castor Maritime an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave Performance Shipping an outperform vote.
Performance Shipping has a beta of -0.31, indicating that its share price is 131% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Castor Maritime has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Performance Shipping had 1 more articles in the media than Castor Maritime. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Performance Shipping and 3 mentions for Castor Maritime. Performance Shipping's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Castor Maritime's score of 0.47 indicating that Castor Maritime is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Performance Shipping has higher revenue and earnings than Castor Maritime. Performance Shipping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Castor Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Performance Shipping beats Castor Maritime on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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