IMPP vs. TORO, TOPS, PXS, GLBS, CTRM, SHIP, GASS, GRIN, ESEA, and CPLP
Should you be buying Imperial Petroleum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Imperial Petroleum include Toro (TORO), Top Ships (TOPS), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), Globus Maritime (GLBS), Castor Maritime (CTRM), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), StealthGas (GASS), Grindrod Shipping (GRIN), Euroseas (ESEA), and Capital Product Partners (CPLP). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Toro (NASDAQ:TORO) and Imperial Petroleum (NASDAQ:IMPP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
1.7% of Toro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Imperial Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Imperial Petroleum shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Toro had 2 more articles in the media than Imperial Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Toro and 7 mentions for Imperial Petroleum. Toro's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Imperial Petroleum's score of 0.51 indicating that Imperial Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Toro has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Imperial Petroleum. Toro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Imperial Petroleum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Toro has a beta of 2.14, suggesting that its stock price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Imperial Petroleum has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Imperial Petroleum received 1 more outperform votes than Toro when rated by MarketBeat users.
Toro has a net margin of 259.21% compared to Toro's net margin of 32.64%. Imperial Petroleum's return on equity of 50.68% beat Toro's return on equity.
Summary
Toro beats Imperial Petroleum on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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