TOPS vs. PXS, GLBS, TORO, CTRM, PSHG, OP, IMPP, SHIP, EDRY, and RAIL
Should you be buying Top Ships stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Top Ships include Pyxis Tankers (PXS), Globus Maritime (GLBS), Toro (TORO), Castor Maritime (CTRM), Performance Shipping (PSHG), OceanPal (OP), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), EuroDry (EDRY), and FreightCar America (RAIL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Top Ships (NASDAQ:TOPS) and Pyxis Tankers (NASDAQ:PXS) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Pyxis Tankers received 10 more outperform votes than Top Ships when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.83% of users gave Pyxis Tankers an outperform vote while only 61.62% of users gave Top Ships an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Top Ships had 10 more articles in the media than Pyxis Tankers. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Top Ships and 0 mentions for Pyxis Tankers. Pyxis Tankers' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Top Ships' score of -0.05 indicating that Pyxis Tankers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
6.7% of Top Ships shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.2% of Pyxis Tankers shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Top Ships shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 54.6% of Pyxis Tankers shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Top Ships has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pyxis Tankers has a beta of 0.05, meaning that its stock price is 95% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pyxis Tankers has a net margin of 81.46% compared to Top Ships' net margin of 0.00%. Pyxis Tankers' return on equity of 45.81% beat Top Ships' return on equity.
Pyxis Tankers has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Top Ships.
Summary
Pyxis Tankers beats Top Ships on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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