GMS vs. TOT, ARW, SAG, JPEI, SNX, NAH, ASH, COR, RUS, and FERG
Should you be buying Gulf Marine Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gulf Marine Services include Total Produce (TOT), Arrow Global Group (ARW), Science Group (SAG), JPMorgan Elect plc - Managed Income (JPEI), Synectics (SNX), NAHL Group (NAH), Ashley House plc (ASH.L) (ASH), 70688 (COR.L) (COR), Raven Russia (RUS), and Ferguson (FERG). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.
Gulf Marine Services vs. Its Competitors
Total Produce (LON:TOT) and Gulf Marine Services (LON:GMS) are both small-cap wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
6.2% of Gulf Marine Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.6% of Gulf Marine Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gulf Marine Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Total Produce. Total Produce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gulf Marine Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Gulf Marine Services had 2 more articles in the media than Total Produce. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Gulf Marine Services and 0 mentions for Total Produce. Gulf Marine Services' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Total Produce's score of 0.00 indicating that Gulf Marine Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Total Produce pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share. Gulf Marine Services pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Total Produce pays out 0.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gulf Marine Services pays out 69.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Gulf Marine Services has a net margin of 25.33% compared to Total Produce's net margin of 0.00%. Gulf Marine Services' return on equity of 11.84% beat Total Produce's return on equity.
Summary
Gulf Marine Services beats Total Produce on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:GMS) was last updated on 7/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
