OMEX vs. EDRY, USEA, KNOP, TORO, AIRT, SFWL, RAIL, TOPS, PXS, and IMPP
Should you be buying Odyssey Marine Exploration stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Odyssey Marine Exploration include EuroDry (EDRY), United Maritime (USEA), KNOT Offshore Partners (KNOP), Toro (TORO), Air T (AIRT), Shengfeng Development (SFWL), FreightCar America (RAIL), Top Ships (TOPS), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), and Imperial Petroleum (IMPP). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
EuroDry (NASDAQ:EDRY) and Odyssey Marine Exploration (NASDAQ:OMEX) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
EuroDry currently has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 45.77%. Given Odyssey Marine Exploration's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe EuroDry is more favorable than Odyssey Marine Exploration.
EuroDry has higher revenue and earnings than Odyssey Marine Exploration.
Odyssey Marine Exploration has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Odyssey Marine Exploration's net margin of -6.11%. Odyssey Marine Exploration's return on equity of 0.30% beat EuroDry's return on equity.
EuroDry has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Odyssey Marine Exploration has a beta of 0.21, meaning that its share price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.
EuroDry received 40 more outperform votes than Odyssey Marine Exploration when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.86% of users gave EuroDry an outperform vote while only 54.87% of users gave Odyssey Marine Exploration an outperform vote.
2.4% of EuroDry shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of Odyssey Marine Exploration shares are held by institutional investors. 51.4% of EuroDry shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Odyssey Marine Exploration shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, EuroDry had 1 more articles in the media than Odyssey Marine Exploration. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for EuroDry and 1 mentions for Odyssey Marine Exploration. EuroDry's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Odyssey Marine Exploration's score of 0.47 indicating that Odyssey Marine Exploration is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
EuroDry beats Odyssey Marine Exploration on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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