CMRE vs. ZIM, NMM, DAC, CDLR, NVGS, LPG, SFL, GNK, DHT, and GSL
Should you be buying Costamare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Costamare include ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Danaos (DAC), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Navigator (NVGS), Dorian LPG (LPG), SFL (SFL), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), DHT (DHT), and Global Ship Lease (GSL). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Costamare (NYSE:CMRE) and ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (NYSE:ZIM) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Costamare currently has a consensus price target of $11.50, suggesting a potential downside of 7.85%. ZIM Integrated Shipping Services has a consensus price target of $10.51, suggesting a potential downside of 18.38%. Given Costamare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Costamare is more favorable than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services.
In the previous week, Costamare had 1 more articles in the media than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Costamare and 4 mentions for ZIM Integrated Shipping Services. Costamare's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' score of 0.30 indicating that Costamare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Costamare received 301 more outperform votes than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.76% of users gave Costamare an outperform vote while only 42.50% of users gave ZIM Integrated Shipping Services an outperform vote.
Costamare has a net margin of 25.26% compared to ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' net margin of -52.22%. Costamare's return on equity of 11.37% beat ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' return on equity.
Costamare has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services. ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Costamare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Costamare has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ZIM Integrated Shipping Services has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
58.1% of Costamare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.4% of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.2% of Costamare shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services 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.
Summary
Costamare beats ZIM Integrated Shipping Services on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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