KNOP vs. OMEX, EDRY, CLCO, SHIP, ESEA, GASS, IMPP, MMLP, TORO, and AIRT
Should you be buying KNOT Offshore Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KNOT Offshore Partners include Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), EuroDry (EDRY), Cool (CLCO), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), Euroseas (ESEA), StealthGas (GASS), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Martin Midstream Partners (MMLP), Toro (TORO), and Air T (AIRT). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Odyssey Marine Exploration (NASDAQ:OMEX) and KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Odyssey Marine Exploration has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Odyssey Marine Exploration's net margin of -11.81%. Odyssey Marine Exploration's return on equity of 2.86% beat KNOT Offshore Partners' return on equity.
KNOT Offshore Partners received 156 more outperform votes than Odyssey Marine Exploration when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.99% of users gave KNOT Offshore Partners an outperform vote while only 54.87% of users gave Odyssey Marine Exploration an outperform vote.
Odyssey Marine Exploration has higher earnings, but lower revenue than KNOT Offshore Partners.
In the previous week, KNOT Offshore Partners had 6 more articles in the media than Odyssey Marine Exploration. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for KNOT Offshore Partners and 0 mentions for Odyssey Marine Exploration. Odyssey Marine Exploration's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat KNOT Offshore Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that KNOT Offshore Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Odyssey Marine Exploration has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KNOT Offshore Partners has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
50.0% of Odyssey Marine Exploration shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.8% of KNOT Offshore Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of Odyssey Marine Exploration shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
KNOT Offshore Partners beats Odyssey Marine Exploration on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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