SMHI vs. NVGS, ULH, VTOL, AZUL, CPLP, ULCC, FIP, GSL, DESP, and GNK
Should you be buying SEACOR Marine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SEACOR Marine include Navigator (NVGS), Universal Logistics (ULH), Bristow Group (VTOL), Azul (AZUL), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), Frontier Group (ULCC), FTAI Infrastructure (FIP), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Despegar.com (DESP), and Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
SEACOR Marine (NYSE:SMHI) and Navigator (NYSE:NVGS) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and institutional ownership.
SEACOR Marine presently has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 71.54%. Navigator has a consensus target price of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 33.08%. Given SEACOR Marine's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe SEACOR Marine is more favorable than Navigator.
Navigator has a net margin of 14.76% compared to SEACOR Marine's net margin of -10.92%. Navigator's return on equity of 7.35% beat SEACOR Marine's return on equity.
In the previous week, Navigator had 1 more articles in the media than SEACOR Marine. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Navigator and 0 mentions for SEACOR Marine. SEACOR Marine's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Navigator's score of -0.22 indicating that SEACOR Marine is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Navigator has higher revenue and earnings than SEACOR Marine. SEACOR Marine is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Navigator, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
59.1% of SEACOR Marine shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Navigator shares are held by institutional investors. 14.6% of SEACOR Marine shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Navigator shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SEACOR Marine has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navigator has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Navigator received 209 more outperform votes than SEACOR Marine when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.52% of users gave Navigator an outperform vote while only 65.06% of users gave SEACOR Marine an outperform vote.
Summary
Navigator beats SEACOR Marine on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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