GMS vs. TOT, ARW, SAG, JPEI, SNX, NAH, ASH, COR, RUS, and FERG
Should you be buying Gulf Marine Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gulf Marine Services include Total Produce (TOT), Arrow Global Group (ARW), Science Group (SAG), JPMorgan Elect plc - Managed Income (JPEI), Synectics (SNX), NAHL Group (NAH), Ashley House plc (ASH.L) (ASH), 70688 (COR.L) (COR), Raven Russia (RUS), and Ferguson (FERG). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.
Gulf Marine Services (LON:GMS) and Total Produce (LON:TOT) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Gulf Marine Services has a net margin of 27.27% compared to Total Produce's net margin of 0.00%. Gulf Marine Services' return on equity of 13.62% beat Total Produce's return on equity.
Gulf Marine Services pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.5%. Total Produce pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Gulf Marine Services pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Total Produce pays out 0.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Gulf Marine Services received 233 more outperform votes than Total Produce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.19% of users gave Gulf Marine Services an outperform vote while only 58.68% of users gave Total Produce an outperform vote.
6.1% of Gulf Marine Services shares are held by institutional investors. 56.8% of Gulf Marine Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Gulf Marine Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Total Produce. Total Produce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gulf Marine Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Total Produce had 8 more articles in the media than Gulf Marine Services. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Total Produce and 2 mentions for Gulf Marine Services. Gulf Marine Services' average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Total Produce's score of -0.03 indicating that Gulf Marine Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Gulf Marine Services beats Total Produce on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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