USEA vs. EDRY, DLNG, FLNG, RCL, CCL, BIP, NCLH, KEX, TDW, and MATX
Should you be buying United Maritime stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Maritime include EuroDry (EDRY), Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG), FLEX LNG (FLNG), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Kirby (KEX), Tidewater (TDW), and Matson (MATX). These companies are all part of the "water transportation" industry.
United Maritime (NASDAQ:USEA) and EuroDry (NASDAQ:EDRY) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
United Maritime has a net margin of 8.02% compared to EuroDry's net margin of -6.22%. United Maritime's return on equity of 5.68% beat EuroDry's return on equity.
1.6% of United Maritime shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.4% of EuroDry shares are held by institutional investors. 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.
United Maritime has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EuroDry has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
United Maritime has higher earnings, but lower revenue than EuroDry. EuroDry is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EuroDry has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 40.06%. Given EuroDry's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe EuroDry is more favorable than United Maritime.
EuroDry received 192 more outperform votes than United Maritime when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, United Maritime's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled EuroDry'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
EuroDry beats United Maritime on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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