NMM vs. CMRE, ZIM, DAC, NVGS, CDLR, GNK, LPG, GSL, SFL, and TNP
Should you be buying Navios Maritime Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navios Maritime Partners include Costamare (CMRE), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Danaos (DAC), Navigator (NVGS), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Dorian LPG (LPG), Global Ship Lease (GSL), SFL (SFL), and Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Costamare (NYSE:CMRE) and Navios Maritime Partners (NYSE:NMM) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.
Costamare pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Navios Maritime Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Costamare pays out 15.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Navios Maritime Partners pays out 1.4% 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.
Navios Maritime Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Costamare. Navios Maritime Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Costamare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Navios Maritime Partners has a net margin of 33.18% compared to Navios Maritime Partners' net margin of 25.26%. Costamare's return on equity of 14.74% beat Navios Maritime Partners' return on equity.
Costamare presently has a consensus price target of $11.50, indicating a potential downside of 2.21%. Given Navios Maritime Partners' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Costamare is more favorable than Navios Maritime Partners.
Costamare has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navios Maritime Partners has a beta of 1.97, meaning that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
58.1% of Costamare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of Navios Maritime Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.2% of Costamare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Costamare had 1 more articles in the media than Navios Maritime Partners. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Costamare and 4 mentions for Navios Maritime Partners. Costamare's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Navios Maritime Partners' score of 0.48 indicating that Navios Maritime Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Navios Maritime Partners received 11 more outperform votes than Costamare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.92% of users gave Navios Maritime Partners an outperform vote while only 52.76% of users gave Costamare an outperform vote.
Summary
Navios Maritime Partners beats Costamare on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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