CTRM vs. IMPP, TORO, TOPS, CACO, PXS, GLBS, PSHG, OP, CISS, and EURN
Should you be buying Castor Maritime stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Castor Maritime include Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Toro (TORO), Top Ships (TOPS), Caravelle International Group (CACO), Pyxis Tankers (PXS), Globus Maritime (GLBS), Performance Shipping (PSHG), OceanPal (OP), C3is (CISS), and Euronav (EURN). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Castor Maritime (NASDAQ:CTRM) and Imperial Petroleum (NASDAQ:IMPP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
1.1% of Castor Maritime shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Imperial Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Imperial Petroleum shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Castor Maritime has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Imperial Petroleum has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Castor Maritime has a net margin of 53.67% compared to Imperial Petroleum's net margin of 32.64%. Imperial Petroleum's return on equity of 24.08% beat Castor Maritime's return on equity.
In the previous week, Castor Maritime had 2 more articles in the media than Imperial Petroleum. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Castor Maritime and 4 mentions for Imperial Petroleum. Imperial Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Castor Maritime's score of 0.91 indicating that Imperial Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Castor Maritime received 13 more outperform votes than Imperial Petroleum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 87.50% of users gave Castor Maritime an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Imperial Petroleum an outperform vote.
Imperial Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Castor Maritime. Castor Maritime is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Imperial Petroleum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Imperial Petroleum beats Castor Maritime on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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