SMHI vs. CPLP, DSX, PANL, HSHP, OSG, ESEA, GASS, SHIP, SB, and IMPP
Should you be buying SEACOR Marine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SEACOR Marine include Capital Product Partners (CPLP), Diana Shipping (DSX), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Euroseas (ESEA), StealthGas (GASS), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), Safe Bulkers (SB), and Imperial Petroleum (IMPP). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Capital Product Partners (NASDAQ:CPLP) and SEACOR Marine (NYSE:SMHI) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
In the previous week, Capital Product Partners had 3 more articles in the media than SEACOR Marine. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Capital Product Partners and 3 mentions for SEACOR Marine. Capital Product Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat SEACOR Marine's score of 0.25 indicating that SEACOR Marine is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
59.1% of SEACOR Marine shares are held by institutional investors. 14.6% of SEACOR Marine shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Capital Product Partners has higher revenue and earnings than SEACOR Marine. SEACOR Marine is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Product Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Capital Product Partners has a net margin of 13.09% compared to Capital Product Partners' net margin of -3.38%. SEACOR Marine's return on equity of 7.78% beat Capital Product Partners' return on equity.
Capital Product Partners has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEACOR Marine has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Capital Product Partners presently has a consensus target price of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 24.12%. SEACOR Marine has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 34.28%. Given Capital Product Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SEACOR Marine is more favorable than Capital Product Partners.
Capital Product Partners received 232 more outperform votes than SEACOR Marine when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.06% of users gave SEACOR Marine an outperform vote while only 61.37% of users gave Capital Product Partners an outperform vote.
Summary
Capital Product Partners beats SEACOR Marine on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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