SHIP vs. GASS, TORO, ESEA, TOPS, IMPP, PXS, GLBS, HSHP, PANL, and DSX
Should you be buying Seanergy Maritime stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seanergy Maritime include StealthGas (GASS), Toro (TORO), Euroseas (ESEA), Top Ships (TOPS), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), Globus Maritime (GLBS), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), and Diana Shipping (DSX). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
StealthGas (NASDAQ:GASS) and Seanergy Maritime (NASDAQ:SHIP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
StealthGas has a net margin of 36.19% compared to StealthGas' net margin of 1.68%. Seanergy Maritime's return on equity of 9.22% beat StealthGas' return on equity.
StealthGas has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seanergy Maritime has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
66.3% of StealthGas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.4% of Seanergy Maritime shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.1% of StealthGas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Seanergy Maritime shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Seanergy Maritime received 164 more outperform votes than StealthGas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.70% of users gave Seanergy Maritime an outperform vote while only 67.13% of users gave StealthGas an outperform vote.
StealthGas presently has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 37.93%. Seanergy Maritime has a consensus price target of $12.50, suggesting a potential upside of 30.89%. Given Seanergy Maritime's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe StealthGas is more favorable than Seanergy Maritime.
StealthGas has higher revenue and earnings than Seanergy Maritime. StealthGas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seanergy Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Seanergy Maritime had 3 more articles in the media than StealthGas. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Seanergy Maritime and 3 mentions for StealthGas. StealthGas' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Seanergy Maritime's score of 0.48 indicating that Seanergy Maritime is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
StealthGas beats Seanergy Maritime on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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