MPL vs. CKN, ICGC, OCN, GPH, FSJ, BMS, NEXS, REAT, CPP, and NWT
Should you be buying Mercantile Ports & Logistics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercantile Ports & Logistics include Clarkson (CKN), Irish Continental Group (ICGC), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), Global Ports (GPH), James Fisher and Sons (FSJ), Braemar (BMS), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), REACT Group (REAT), CPPGroup (CPP), and Newmark Security (NWT). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Mercantile Ports & Logistics vs. Its Competitors
Mercantile Ports & Logistics (LON:MPL) and Clarkson (LON:CKN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and risk.
37.0% of Mercantile Ports & Logistics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.0% of Clarkson shares are held by institutional investors. 44.5% of Mercantile Ports & Logistics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of Clarkson shares are held by company insiders. 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.
Mercantile Ports & Logistics has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clarkson has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Clarkson has a consensus price target of GBX 3,950, indicating a potential upside of 9.27%. Given Clarkson's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Clarkson is more favorable than Mercantile Ports & Logistics.
In the previous week, Clarkson had 7 more articles in the media than Mercantile Ports & Logistics. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Clarkson and 0 mentions for Mercantile Ports & Logistics. Clarkson's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Mercantile Ports & Logistics' score of 0.00 indicating that Clarkson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Clarkson has higher revenue and earnings than Mercantile Ports & Logistics. Mercantile Ports & Logistics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clarkson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clarkson has a net margin of 13.10% compared to Mercantile Ports & Logistics' net margin of 0.00%. Clarkson's return on equity of 17.96% beat Mercantile Ports & Logistics' return on equity.
Summary
Clarkson beats Mercantile Ports & Logistics on 15 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:MPL) was last updated on 10/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
