AIRT vs. TOPS, EDRY, IMPP, OMEX, PXS, FLYX, TORO, GLBS, BEST, and SRFM
Should you be buying Air T stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Air T include Top Ships (TOPS), EuroDry (EDRY), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), flyExclusive (FLYX), Toro (TORO), Globus Maritime (GLBS), BEST (BEST), and Surf Air Mobility (SRFM). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Top Ships (NASDAQ:TOPS) and Air T (NASDAQ:AIRT) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Top Ships received 49 more outperform votes than Air T when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.62% of users gave Top Ships an outperform vote while only 46.37% of users gave Air T an outperform vote.
Top Ships has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air T has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Top Ships has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Top Ships' net margin of -4.91%. Air T's return on equity of 0.00% beat Top Ships' return on equity.
Top Ships has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Air T.
6.7% of Top Ships shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.9% of Air T shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Top Ships shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 66.2% of Air T shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Air T had 111 more articles in the media than Top Ships. MarketBeat recorded 117 mentions for Air T and 6 mentions for Top Ships. Air T's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Top Ships' score of -0.02 indicating that Top Ships is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Top Ships beats Air T on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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