EGLE vs. NMM, CCEC, LPG, NVGS, CMRE, GSL, ECO, TK, GNK, and TEN
Should you be buying Eagle Bulk Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Bulk Shipping include Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Capital Clean Energy Carriers (CCEC), Dorian LPG (LPG), Navigator (NVGS), Costamare (CMRE), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Okeanis Eco Tankers (ECO), Teekay (TK), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), and Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Eagle Bulk Shipping vs.
Eagle Bulk Shipping (NASDAQ:EGLE) and Navios Maritime Partners (NYSE:NMM) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Eagle Bulk Shipping has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navios Maritime Partners has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Navios Maritime Partners received 28 more outperform votes than Eagle Bulk Shipping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.90% of users gave Navios Maritime Partners an outperform vote while only 52.51% of users gave Eagle Bulk Shipping an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Navios Maritime Partners had 1 more articles in the media than Eagle Bulk Shipping. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Navios Maritime Partners and 0 mentions for Eagle Bulk Shipping. Navios Maritime Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat Eagle Bulk Shipping's score of 0.00 indicating that Navios Maritime Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.6% of Eagle Bulk Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of Navios Maritime Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Eagle Bulk Shipping shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Navios Maritime Partners has a consensus target price of $80.00, indicating a potential upside of 105.84%. Given Navios Maritime Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Navios Maritime Partners is more favorable than Eagle Bulk Shipping.
Eagle Bulk Shipping pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Navios Maritime Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Eagle Bulk Shipping pays out 156.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Navios Maritime Partners pays out 1.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Navios Maritime Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Eagle Bulk Shipping. Navios Maritime Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eagle Bulk Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Navios Maritime Partners has a net margin of 27.53% compared to Eagle Bulk Shipping's net margin of 5.77%. Navios Maritime Partners' return on equity of 11.64% beat Eagle Bulk Shipping's return on equity.
Summary
Navios Maritime Partners beats Eagle Bulk Shipping on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:EGLE) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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