SHIP vs. ESEA, GASS, IMPP, TORO, TOPS, HSHP, PXS, DSX, PANL, and SMHI
Should you be buying Seanergy Maritime stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seanergy Maritime include Euroseas (ESEA), StealthGas (GASS), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Toro (TORO), Top Ships (TOPS), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), Diana Shipping (DSX), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), and SEACOR Marine (SMHI). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Euroseas (NASDAQ:ESEA) and Seanergy Maritime (NASDAQ:SHIP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Euroseas has a net margin of 60.50% compared to Euroseas' net margin of 1.68%. Seanergy Maritime's return on equity of 45.15% beat Euroseas' return on equity.
Seanergy Maritime has a consensus target price of $12.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.48%. Given Euroseas' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Seanergy Maritime is more favorable than Euroseas.
Euroseas has higher revenue and earnings than Seanergy Maritime. Euroseas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seanergy Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Euroseas pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Seanergy Maritime pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Euroseas pays out 14.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Seanergy Maritime pays out 142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Euroseas has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Euroseas is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Seanergy Maritime received 212 more outperform votes than Euroseas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.70% of users gave Seanergy Maritime an outperform vote while only 64.71% of users gave Euroseas an outperform vote.
6.3% of Euroseas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.4% of Seanergy Maritime shares are owned by institutional investors. 55.9% of Euroseas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Seanergy Maritime 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.
Euroseas has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seanergy Maritime has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Euroseas and Euroseas both had 5 articles in the media. Seanergy Maritime's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Euroseas' score of 0.40 indicating that Euroseas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Euroseas beats Seanergy Maritime on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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