USEA vs. EDRY, OMEX, BANL, OP, JYD, RVSN, PSHG, CTRM, SRFM, and MESA
Should you be buying United Maritime stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Maritime include EuroDry (EDRY), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), CBL International (BANL), OceanPal (OP), Jayud Global Logistics (JYD), Rail Vision (RVSN), Performance Shipping (PSHG), Castor Maritime (CTRM), Surf Air Mobility (SRFM), and Mesa Air Group (MESA). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
EuroDry (NASDAQ:EDRY) and United Maritime (NASDAQ:USEA) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
United Maritime has lower revenue, but higher earnings than EuroDry. EuroDry is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
United Maritime has a net margin of -0.25% compared to United Maritime's net margin of -6.11%. United Maritime's return on equity of 0.30% beat EuroDry's return on equity.
EuroDry has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Maritime has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, EuroDry had 1 more articles in the media than United Maritime. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for EuroDry and 1 mentions for United Maritime. EuroDry's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat United Maritime's score of 0.94 indicating that United Maritime is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
EuroDry currently has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 38.57%. Given United Maritime's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe EuroDry is more favorable than United Maritime.
EuroDry received 192 more outperform votes than United Maritime when rated by MarketBeat users.
2.4% of EuroDry shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.6% of United Maritime shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
EuroDry beats United Maritime on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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