Cool (CLCO) Competitors

Cool (NYSE:CLCO) and Costamare (NYSE:CMRE) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CLCO or CMRE?

Costamare received 339 more outperform votes than Cool when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.31% of users gave Costamare an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Cool an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Cool	Outperform Votes 1 50.00%	Underperform Votes 1 50.00%
Costamare	Outperform Votes 340 52.31%	Underperform Votes 310 47.69%

Do analysts rate CLCO or CMRE?

Costamare has a consensus price target of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 44.54%. Given Costamare's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Costamare is more favorable than Cool.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cool	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Costamare	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of CLCO or CMRE?

20.7% of Cool shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.1% of Costamare shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.2% of Costamare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, CLCO or CMRE?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cool	$322.51M	1.05	$174.73M	$0.68	9.24
Costamare	$2.08B	0.54	$319.92M	$2.44	3.83

Is CLCO or CMRE more profitable?

Costamare has a net margin of 15.14% compared to Cool's net margin of 0.00%. Costamare's return on equity of 14.03% beat Cool's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cool	N/A	N/A	N/A
Costamare	15.14%	14.03%	6.67%

Is CLCO or CMRE a better dividend stock?

Cool pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Costamare pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Cool pays out 88.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Costamare pays out 18.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Does the media prefer CLCO or CMRE?

In the previous week, Costamare had 5 more articles in the media than Cool. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Costamare and 0 mentions for Cool. Costamare's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Cool's score of 0.00 indicating that Costamare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Cool	Neutral
Costamare	Positive

Which has more risk & volatility, CLCO or CMRE?

Cool has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Costamare has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Costamare beats Cool on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.