USEA vs. EDRY, OMEX, BANL, OP, PSHG, RVSN, JYD, CTRM, YGMZ, and MESA
Should you be buying United Maritime stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Maritime include EuroDry (EDRY), Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), CBL International (BANL), OceanPal (OP), Performance Shipping (PSHG), Rail Vision (RVSN), Jayud Global Logistics (JYD), Castor Maritime (CTRM), MingZhu Logistics (YGMZ), and Mesa Air Group (MESA). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
United Maritime (NASDAQ:USEA) and EuroDry (NASDAQ:EDRY) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
United Maritime has a net margin of -0.25% compared to EuroDry's net margin of -6.11%. EuroDry's return on equity of 0.30% beat United Maritime's return on equity.
EuroDry received 192 more outperform votes than United Maritime when rated by MarketBeat users.
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, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EuroDry has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, EuroDry had 3 more articles in the media than United Maritime. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for EuroDry and 0 mentions for United Maritime. United Maritime's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled EuroDry'saverage media sentiment score.
1.6% of United Maritime shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.4% of EuroDry shares are held by institutional investors. 51.4% of EuroDry shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
EuroDry has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.86%. Given EuroDry's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe EuroDry is more favorable than United Maritime.
Summary
EuroDry beats United Maritime on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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