TORO vs. DSX, GASS, ESEA, SHIP, IMPP, TOPS, PXS, CACO, GLBS, and CTRM
Should you be buying Toro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Toro include Diana Shipping (DSX), StealthGas (GASS), Euroseas (ESEA), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Top Ships (TOPS), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), Caravelle International Group (CACO), Globus Maritime (GLBS), and Castor Maritime (CTRM). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Diana Shipping (NYSE:DSX) and Toro (NASDAQ:TORO) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
48.7% of Diana Shipping shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.7% of Toro shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Diana Shipping received 346 more outperform votes than Toro when rated by MarketBeat users.
Toro has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Diana Shipping. Toro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diana Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Diana Shipping has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toro has a beta of 2.14, suggesting that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Toro has a net margin of 259.21% compared to Toro's net margin of 11.81%. Diana Shipping's return on equity of 50.68% beat Toro's return on equity.
In the previous week, Diana Shipping had 13 more articles in the media than Toro. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Diana Shipping and 2 mentions for Toro. Diana Shipping's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Toro's score of -0.03 indicating that Toro is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Diana Shipping presently has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.33%. Given Toro's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Diana Shipping is more favorable than Toro.
Summary
Toro beats Diana Shipping on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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