USEA vs. AIRT, YTRA, SFWL, MESA, TORO, JYD, PXS, YELLQ, YELL, and NCEW
Should you be buying United Maritime stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Maritime include Air T (AIRT), Yatra Online (YTRA), Shengfeng Development (SFWL), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Toro (TORO), Jayud Global Logistics (JYD), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), Yellow (YELLQ), Yellow (YELL), and New Century Logistics (BVI) (NCEW). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
United Maritime vs.
Air T (NASDAQ:AIRT) and United Maritime (NASDAQ:USEA) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Air T has a net margin of -0.27% compared to United Maritime's net margin of -4.96%. United Maritime's return on equity of -2.76% beat Air T's return on equity.
United Maritime has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 373.93%. Given United Maritime's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe United Maritime is more favorable than Air T.
Air T has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Maritime has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Air T had 9 more articles in the media than United Maritime. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Air T and 4 mentions for United Maritime. Air T's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat United Maritime's score of 0.00 indicating that Air T is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Air T pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. United Maritime pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Air T pays out -107.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. United Maritime pays out -10.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
8.9% of Air T shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.6% of United Maritime shares are held by institutional investors. 67.7% of Air T shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Air T received 177 more outperform votes than United Maritime when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave United Maritime an outperform vote while only 45.55% of users gave Air T an outperform vote.
United Maritime has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Air T. Air T is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Air T and United Maritime tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:USEA) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
