ZIM vs. CMRE, DAC, NMM, CDLR, NVGS, LPG, SFL, DHT, GNK, and GSL
Should you be buying ZIM Integrated Shipping Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services include Costamare (CMRE), Danaos (DAC), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Navigator (NVGS), Dorian LPG (LPG), SFL (SFL), DHT (DHT), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), and Global Ship Lease (GSL). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (NYSE:ZIM) and Costamare (NYSE:CMRE) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services presently has a consensus target price of $10.51, suggesting a potential downside of 20.48%. Costamare has a consensus target price of $11.50, suggesting a potential downside of 2.38%. Given Costamare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Costamare is more favorable than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Costamare has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ZIM Integrated Shipping Services had 2 more articles in the media than Costamare. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ZIM Integrated Shipping Services and 5 mentions for Costamare. ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Costamare's score of 0.23 indicating that ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Costamare has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
21.4% of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.1% of Costamare shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.2% of Costamare shares are owned by 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.
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 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.
Summary
Costamare beats ZIM Integrated Shipping Services on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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