CMRE vs. ZIM, NMM, DAC, CDLR, NVGS, LPG, SFL, GNK, DHT, and GSL
Should you be buying Costamare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Costamare include ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), Danaos (DAC), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Navigator (NVGS), Dorian LPG (LPG), SFL (SFL), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), DHT (DHT), and Global Ship Lease (GSL).
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (NYSE:ZIM) and Costamare (NYSE:CMRE) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
21.4% of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.1% of Costamare shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.2% of Costamare shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services currently has a consensus price target of $10.51, suggesting a potential downside of 20.48%. Costamare has a consensus price target of $11.50, suggesting a potential downside of 2.38%. Given ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Costamare is more favorable than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services.
Costamare received 301 more outperform votes than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.76% of users gave Costamare an outperform vote while only 42.50% of users gave ZIM Integrated Shipping Services an outperform vote.
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Costamare has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Costamare has a net margin of 25.26% compared to Costamare's net margin of -52.22%. ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' return on equity of 11.37% beat Costamare's return on equity.
In the previous week, ZIM Integrated Shipping Services had 2 more articles in the media than Costamare. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ZIM Integrated Shipping Services and 5 mentions for Costamare. Costamare's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat ZIM Integrated Shipping Services' score of 0.23 indicating that ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Costamare has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ZIM Integrated Shipping Services. ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Costamare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Costamare beats ZIM Integrated Shipping Services on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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