ESEA vs. GSL, UP, AZUL, SNCY, ULH, VLRS, CVLG, FIP, GNK, and LIND
Should you be buying Euroseas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Euroseas include Global Ship Lease (GSL), Wheels Up Experience (UP), Azul (AZUL), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Universal Logistics (ULH), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), FTAI Infrastructure (FIP), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), and Lindblad Expeditions (LIND). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Euroseas vs.
Global Ship Lease (NYSE:GSL) and Euroseas (NASDAQ:ESEA) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
Euroseas has a net margin of 54.21% compared to Global Ship Lease's net margin of 46.38%. Euroseas' return on equity of 34.73% beat Global Ship Lease's return on equity.
Euroseas received 88 more outperform votes than Global Ship Lease when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.01% of users gave Euroseas an outperform vote while only 62.16% of users gave Global Ship Lease an outperform vote.
Global Ship Lease currently has a consensus price target of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.37%. Euroseas has a consensus price target of $56.50, indicating a potential upside of 83.92%. Given Euroseas' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Euroseas is more favorable than Global Ship Lease.
Global Ship Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Euroseas pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Global Ship Lease pays out 18.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Euroseas pays out 16.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Euroseas is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Global Ship Lease has higher revenue and earnings than Euroseas. Euroseas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Ship Lease, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Euroseas had 1 more articles in the media than Global Ship Lease. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Euroseas and 2 mentions for Global Ship Lease. Euroseas' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Global Ship Lease's score of 0.34 indicating that Euroseas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Global Ship Lease has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Euroseas has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
50.1% of Global Ship Lease shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of Euroseas shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of Global Ship Lease shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 55.9% of Euroseas shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Euroseas beats Global Ship Lease on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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