USEA vs. EDRY, OMEX, BANL, OP, PSHG, RVSN, JYD, CTRM, YGMZ, and MESA
Should you be buying United Maritime stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Maritime include EuroDry (EDRY), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), CBL International (BANL), OceanPal (OP), Performance Shipping (PSHG), Rail Vision (RVSN), Jayud Global Logistics (JYD), Castor Maritime (CTRM), MingZhu Logistics (YGMZ), and Mesa Air Group (MESA). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
EuroDry (NASDAQ:EDRY) and United Maritime (NASDAQ:USEA) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
EuroDry has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Maritime has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
United Maritime has lower revenue, but higher earnings than EuroDry. EuroDry is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, EuroDry had 1 more articles in the media than United Maritime. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for EuroDry and 0 mentions for United Maritime. EuroDry's average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat United Maritime's score of 0.94 indicating that United Maritime is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
EuroDry received 192 more outperform votes than United Maritime when rated by MarketBeat users.
2.4% of EuroDry shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.6% of United Maritime shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.4% of EuroDry shares are owned by company 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.
United Maritime has a net margin of -0.25% compared to United Maritime's net margin of -6.11%. United Maritime's return on equity of 0.30% beat EuroDry's return on equity.
EuroDry currently has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 38.12%. Given United Maritime's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe EuroDry is more favorable than United Maritime.
Summary
EuroDry beats United Maritime on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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