DCIX vs. MMLP, IMPP, TORO, OMEX, AIRT, SFWL, RAIL, EDRY, TOPS, and PXS
Should you be buying Performance Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Performance Shipping include Martin Midstream Partners (MMLP), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Toro (TORO), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), Air T (AIRT), Shengfeng Development (SFWL), FreightCar America (RAIL), EuroDry (EDRY), Top Ships (TOPS), and Pyxis Tankers (PXS). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Performance Shipping (NASDAQ:DCIX) and Martin Midstream Partners (NASDAQ:MMLP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Performance Shipping pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Martin Midstream Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Performance Shipping pays out 1.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Martin Midstream Partners pays out 22.2% 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. Performance Shipping is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Martin Midstream Partners received 80 more outperform votes than Performance Shipping when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.96% of users gave Performance Shipping an outperform vote while only 59.44% of users gave Martin Midstream Partners an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Martin Midstream Partners had 17 more articles in the media than Performance Shipping. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Martin Midstream Partners and 0 mentions for Performance Shipping. Martin Midstream Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Performance Shipping's score of 0.00 indicating that Martin Midstream Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Martin Midstream Partners has a net margin of 0.52% compared to Performance Shipping's net margin of -11.89%. Performance Shipping's return on equity of 8.25% beat Martin Midstream Partners' return on equity.
1.9% of Performance Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.9% of Martin Midstream Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 17.0% of Martin Midstream Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Martin Midstream Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Performance Shipping. Performance Shipping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Martin Midstream Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Martin Midstream Partners beats Performance Shipping on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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