NMM vs. NVGS, CMRE, DAC, CDLR, GNK, LPG, ASC, GSL, TNP, and TK
Should you be buying Navios Maritime Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navios Maritime Partners include Navigator (NVGS), Costamare (CMRE), Danaos (DAC), Cadeler A/S (CDLR), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Dorian LPG (LPG), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), and Teekay (TK). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Navigator (NYSE:NVGS) and Navios Maritime Partners (NYSE:NMM) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Navios Maritime Partners has a net margin of 30.99% compared to Navios Maritime Partners' net margin of 15.68%. Navigator's return on equity of 14.66% beat Navios Maritime Partners' return on equity.
Navigator presently has a consensus price target of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.83%. Given Navios Maritime Partners' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Navigator is more favorable than Navios Maritime Partners.
19.0% of Navigator shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of Navios Maritime Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Navigator shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Navigator has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navios Maritime Partners has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Navios Maritime Partners received 34 more outperform votes than Navigator when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.64% of users gave Navigator an outperform vote while only 60.92% of users gave Navios Maritime Partners an outperform vote.
Navios Maritime Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Navigator. Navios Maritime Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Navigator, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Navigator and Navigator both had 10 articles in the media. Navigator's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Navios Maritime Partners' score of 0.33 indicating that Navios Maritime Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Navigator pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Navios Maritime Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Navigator pays out 17.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Navios Maritime Partners pays out 1.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Navios Maritime Partners beats Navigator on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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