ESEA vs. SHIP, SMHI, TOPS, NM, PSHG, GSL, GNK, TNP, ASC, and TK
Should you be buying Euroseas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Euroseas include Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Top Ships (TOPS), Navios Maritime (NM), Performance Shipping (PSHG), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), and Teekay (TK). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Seanergy Maritime (NASDAQ:SHIP) and Euroseas (NASDAQ:ESEA) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
Euroseas has higher revenue and earnings than Seanergy Maritime. Euroseas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seanergy Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Seanergy Maritime presently has a consensus target price of $12.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.46%. Given Euroseas' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Seanergy Maritime is more favorable than Euroseas.
Seanergy Maritime pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Euroseas pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Seanergy Maritime pays out 12.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Euroseas pays out 15.8% 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. Euroseas has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Euroseas is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Euroseas has a net margin of 54.50% compared to Euroseas' net margin of 12.06%. Seanergy Maritime's return on equity of 39.84% beat Euroseas' return on equity.
Seanergy Maritime received 213 more outperform votes than Euroseas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.74% of users gave Seanergy Maritime an outperform vote while only 64.71% of users gave Euroseas an outperform vote.
Seanergy Maritime has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Euroseas has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
29.4% of Seanergy Maritime shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of Euroseas shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.7% of Seanergy Maritime shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 55.9% of Euroseas shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Euroseas had 5 more articles in the media than Seanergy Maritime. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Euroseas and 3 mentions for Seanergy Maritime. Euroseas' average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Seanergy Maritime's score of 0.20 indicating that Seanergy Maritime is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Euroseas beats Seanergy Maritime on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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