GRIN vs. SMHI, CPLP, PANL, ESEA, OSG, GASS, DSX, CTRM, TNP, and PXS
Should you be buying Grindrod Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grindrod Shipping include SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Euroseas (ESEA), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), StealthGas (GASS), Diana Shipping (DSX), Castor Maritime (CTRM), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), and Pyxis Tankers (PXS). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Grindrod Shipping vs.
SEACOR Marine (NYSE:SMHI) and Grindrod Shipping (NASDAQ:GRIN) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
53.9% of SEACOR Marine shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of Grindrod Shipping shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.0% of SEACOR Marine shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Grindrod Shipping shares are owned by 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.
Grindrod Shipping has a consensus target price of $29.00, suggesting a potential upside of 157.78%. Given Grindrod Shipping's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Grindrod Shipping is more favorable than SEACOR Marine.
SEACOR Marine has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grindrod Shipping has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Grindrod Shipping had 2 more articles in the media than SEACOR Marine. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Grindrod Shipping and 0 mentions for SEACOR Marine. Grindrod Shipping's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat SEACOR Marine's score of 0.00 indicating that Grindrod Shipping is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Grindrod Shipping has higher revenue and earnings than SEACOR Marine. SEACOR Marine is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grindrod Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Grindrod Shipping has a net margin of 22.45% compared to SEACOR Marine's net margin of -32.97%. Grindrod Shipping's return on equity of 34.43% beat SEACOR Marine's return on equity.
SEACOR Marine received 83 more outperform votes than Grindrod Shipping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.24% of users gave SEACOR Marine an outperform vote while only 64.86% of users gave Grindrod Shipping an outperform vote.
Summary
Grindrod Shipping beats SEACOR Marine on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding GRIN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ 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.
Grindrod Shipping Competitors List
