DCIX vs. MMLP, IMPP, TORO, OMEX, AIRT, SFWL, RAIL, EDRY, TOPS, and PXS
Should you be buying Performance Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Performance Shipping include Martin Midstream Partners (MMLP), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Toro (TORO), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), Air T (AIRT), Shengfeng Development (SFWL), FreightCar America (RAIL), EuroDry (EDRY), Top Ships (TOPS), and Pyxis Tankers (PXS). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Martin Midstream Partners (NASDAQ:MMLP) and Performance Shipping (NASDAQ:DCIX) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and risk.
Martin Midstream Partners has a net margin of 0.52% compared to Martin Midstream Partners' net margin of -11.89%. Martin Midstream Partners' return on equity of 8.25% beat Performance Shipping's return on equity.
In the previous week, Martin Midstream Partners had 7 more articles in the media than Performance Shipping. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Martin Midstream Partners and 0 mentions for Performance Shipping. Performance Shipping's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Martin Midstream Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Martin Midstream Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Martin Midstream Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Performance Shipping pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Martin Midstream Partners pays out 22.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Performance Shipping pays out 1.0% 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. Performance Shipping is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Martin Midstream Partners received 80 more outperform votes than Performance Shipping when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.96% of users gave Performance Shipping an outperform vote while only 59.44% of users gave Martin Midstream Partners an outperform vote.
34.9% of Martin Midstream Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.9% of Performance Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. 17.0% of Martin Midstream Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Martin Midstream Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Performance Shipping. Performance Shipping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Martin Midstream Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Martin Midstream Partners beats Performance Shipping on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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