CPLP vs. SMHI, PANL, DSX, HSHP, OSG, GASS, ESEA, SHIP, SB, and IMPP
Should you be buying Capital Product Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Product Partners include SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Diana Shipping (DSX), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), StealthGas (GASS), Euroseas (ESEA), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), Safe Bulkers (SB), and Imperial Petroleum (IMPP). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Capital Product Partners (NASDAQ:CPLP) and SEACOR Marine (NYSE:SMHI) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Capital Product Partners currently has a consensus target price of $20.67, suggesting a potential upside of 23.75%. SEACOR Marine has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.11%. Given SEACOR Marine's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SEACOR Marine is more favorable than Capital Product Partners.
Capital Product Partners has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEACOR Marine has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Capital Product Partners had 5 more articles in the media than SEACOR Marine. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Capital Product Partners and 5 mentions for SEACOR Marine. Capital Product Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat SEACOR Marine's score of -0.70 indicating that Capital Product Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Capital Product Partners has higher revenue and earnings than SEACOR Marine. SEACOR Marine is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Product Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
59.1% of SEACOR Marine shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.6% of SEACOR Marine shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Capital Product Partners received 232 more outperform votes than SEACOR Marine when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.06% of users gave SEACOR Marine an outperform vote while only 61.37% of users gave Capital Product Partners an outperform vote.
Capital Product Partners has a net margin of 18.51% compared to SEACOR Marine's net margin of -8.19%. Capital Product Partners' return on equity of 7.02% beat SEACOR Marine's return on equity.
Summary
Capital Product Partners beats SEACOR Marine on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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