USEA vs. EDRY, DLNG, FLNG, RCL, CCL, BIP, KEX, NCLH, 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), Kirby (KEX), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), 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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and earnings.
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.
United Maritime has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EuroDry has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
EuroDry has a consensus target price of $30.00, indicating a potential upside of 37.99%. Given EuroDry's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe EuroDry is more favorable than United Maritime.
In the previous week, United Maritime and United Maritime both had 3 articles in the media. EuroDry's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat United Maritime's score of 0.81 indicating that EuroDry is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
1.6% of United Maritime shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.4% of EuroDry shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.4% of EuroDry shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
EuroDry received 192 more outperform votes than United Maritime when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
EuroDry beats United Maritime on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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