Navios Maritime Partners (NMM) Competitors

Schneider National (NYSE:SNDR) and Navios Maritime Partners (NYSE:NMM) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.

Is SNDR or NMM a better dividend stock?

Schneider National pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Navios Maritime Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Schneider National pays out 54.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Navios Maritime Partners pays out 1.8% 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. Schneider National has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Schneider National is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in SNDR or NMM?

28.5% of Schneider National shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of Navios Maritime Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 32.7% of Schneider National shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, SNDR or NMM?

Navios Maritime Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Schneider National. Navios Maritime Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schneider National, 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
Schneider National	$5.37B	0.77	$117M	$0.70	33.66
Navios Maritime Partners	$1.33B	0.85	$367.31M	$10.99	3.49

Do analysts prefer SNDR or NMM?

Schneider National currently has a consensus target price of $26.50, suggesting a potential upside of 12.48%. Navios Maritime Partners has a consensus target price of $80.00, suggesting a potential upside of 108.55%. Given Navios Maritime Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Navios Maritime Partners is more favorable than Schneider National.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Schneider National	0 Sell rating(s)	9 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.31
Navios Maritime Partners	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Is SNDR or NMM more profitable?

Navios Maritime Partners has a net margin of 27.53% compared to Schneider National's net margin of 2.21%. Navios Maritime Partners' return on equity of 11.64% beat Schneider National's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Schneider National	2.21%	4.12%	2.67%
Navios Maritime Partners	27.53%	11.64%	6.36%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SNDR or NMM?

Schneider National received 81 more outperform votes than Navios Maritime Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.40% of users gave Schneider National an outperform vote while only 60.90% of users gave Navios Maritime Partners an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Schneider National	Outperform Votes 433 63.40%	Underperform Votes 250 36.60%
Navios Maritime Partners	Outperform Votes 352 60.90%	Underperform Votes 226 39.10%

Does the media prefer SNDR or NMM?

In the previous week, Schneider National had 9 more articles in the media than Navios Maritime Partners. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Schneider National and 2 mentions for Navios Maritime Partners. Navios Maritime Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat Schneider National's score of 0.68 indicating that Navios Maritime Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Schneider National	4 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Navios Maritime Partners	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Which has more risk & volatility, SNDR or NMM?

Schneider National has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navios Maritime Partners has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Navios Maritime Partners beats Schneider National on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.