IMPP vs. TORO, TOPS, PXS, GLBS, CTRM, PSHG, SHIP, GASS, ESEA, and HSHP
Should you be buying Imperial Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Imperial Petroleum include Toro (TORO), Top Ships (TOPS), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), Globus Maritime (GLBS), Castor Maritime (CTRM), Performance Shipping (PSHG), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), StealthGas (GASS), Euroseas (ESEA), and Himalaya Shipping (HSHP). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Toro (NASDAQ:TORO) and Imperial Petroleum (NASDAQ:IMPP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
Toro has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Imperial Petroleum. Imperial Petroleum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Toro has a net margin of 179.23% compared to Toro's net margin of 38.72%. Imperial Petroleum's return on equity of 66.54% beat Toro's return on equity.
1.7% of Toro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Imperial Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Imperial Petroleum shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Toro had 7 more articles in the media than Imperial Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Toro and 0 mentions for Imperial Petroleum. Imperial Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 0.04 beat Toro's score of 0.00 indicating that Toro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Imperial Petroleum received 1 more outperform votes than Toro when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Toro beats Imperial Petroleum on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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