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Pyxis Tankers (PXS) Competitors

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$2.80 -0.04 (-1.41%)
As of 06/30/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

PXS vs. SPCE, NCT, CRGO, IMPP, HMR, TOUR, YGMZ, YTRA, AIRT, and BEST

Should you be buying Pyxis Tankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pyxis Tankers include Virgin Galactic (SPCE), Intercont (Cayman) (NCT), Freightos (CRGO), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Heidmar Maritime (HMR), Tuniu (TOUR), MingZhu Logistics (YGMZ), Yatra Online (YTRA), Air T (AIRT), and BEST (BEST). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.

Pyxis Tankers vs. Its Competitors

Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) and Pyxis Tankers (NASDAQ:PXS) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

Pyxis Tankers has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pyxis Tankers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Virgin Galactic$7.04M16.18-$346.74M-$11.93-0.23
Pyxis Tankers$51.54M0.57$12.87M$0.584.83

Virgin Galactic presently has a consensus price target of $4.81, suggesting a potential upside of 75.64%. Pyxis Tankers has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 257.14%. Given Pyxis Tankers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Pyxis Tankers is more favorable than Virgin Galactic.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Virgin Galactic
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Pyxis Tankers
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Virgin Galactic has a beta of 2.14, meaning that its stock price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pyxis Tankers has a beta of -0.57, meaning that its stock price is 157% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Virgin Galactic had 5 more articles in the media than Pyxis Tankers. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Virgin Galactic and 1 mentions for Pyxis Tankers. Pyxis Tankers' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Virgin Galactic's score of 0.65 indicating that Pyxis Tankers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Virgin Galactic Positive
Pyxis Tankers Very Positive

Pyxis Tankers has a net margin of 20.23% compared to Virgin Galactic's net margin of -5,972.70%. Pyxis Tankers' return on equity of 12.28% beat Virgin Galactic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Virgin Galactic-5,972.70% -97.17% -33.39%
Pyxis Tankers 20.23%12.28%6.54%

46.6% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.2% of Pyxis Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 54.6% of Pyxis Tankers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Pyxis Tankers beats Virgin Galactic on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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.
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PXS vs. The Competition

MetricPyxis TankersTRANS IndustryTransportation SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$29.78M$2.50B$7.05B$8.90B
Dividend YieldN/A5.21%922.88%4.13%
P/E Ratio4.836.2612.4619.67
Price / Sales0.572.15315.45110.25
Price / Cash1.303.937.3127.49
Price / Book0.300.742.105.42
Net Income$12.87M$527.30M$563.51M$248.34M
7 Day Performance-3.45%-3.38%-0.49%0.82%
1 Month Performance1.08%4.59%3.28%5.01%
1 Year Performance-44.94%-30.35%0.51%18.10%

Pyxis Tankers Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PXS
Pyxis Tankers
3.777 of 5 stars
$2.80
-1.4%
$10.00
+257.1%
-45.0%$29.78M$51.54M4.834Positive News
SPCE
Virgin Galactic
2.0027 of 5 stars
$2.93
-2.0%
$13.06
+345.8%
-67.5%$121.82M$5.51M-0.25800Analyst Forecast
NCT
Intercont (Cayman)
N/A$4.21
+6.6%
N/AN/A$111.57M$25.53M0.0019Positive News
Gap Up
CRGO
Freightos
2.193 of 5 stars
$2.17
+2.4%
$3.50
+61.3%
+2.1%$107.91M$23.78M-4.72350Positive News
IMPP
Imperial Petroleum
1.1553 of 5 stars
$3.37
-1.5%
N/A-20.6%$100.46M$147.48M2.7474Positive News
High Trading Volume
HMR
Heidmar Maritime
N/A$1.68
+13.5%
N/AN/A$97.71MN/A0.00N/A
TOUR
Tuniu
3.3245 of 5 stars
$0.81
-0.1%
N/A+0.6%$94.81M$70.37M10.131,920
YGMZ
MingZhu Logistics
1.5611 of 5 stars
$1.22
-6.2%
N/A-60.2%$93.55M$40.43M0.0080Positive News
YTRA
Yatra Online
3.3 of 5 stars
$0.99
-1.0%
$3.00
+203.6%
-18.1%$62.35M$93.14M-98.801,268Positive News
Gap Down
AIRT
Air T
0.378 of 5 stars
$21.50
-3.2%
N/A+3.2%$58.70M$286.83M-76.78500Earnings Report
BEST
BEST
N/A$2.81
+0.2%
N/A+2.0%$56.37M$8.54B-0.534,380Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:PXS) was last updated on 7/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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