Euroseas (ESEA) Competitors

FTAI Infrastructure (NASDAQ:FIP) and Euroseas (NASDAQ:ESEA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in FIP or ESEA?

87.4% of FTAI Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of Euroseas shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of FTAI Infrastructure shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 55.9% of Euroseas shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk & volatility, FIP or ESEA?

FTAI Infrastructure has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Euroseas has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts prefer FIP or ESEA?

FTAI Infrastructure currently has a consensus price target of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 54.57%. Euroseas has a consensus price target of $56.50, suggesting a potential upside of 71.16%. Given Euroseas' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Euroseas is more favorable than FTAI Infrastructure.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FTAI Infrastructure	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Euroseas	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.50

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FIP or ESEA?

Euroseas received 240 more outperform votes than FTAI Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave FTAI Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 64.74% of users gave Euroseas an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FTAI Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 6 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
Euroseas	Outperform Votes 246 64.74%	Underperform Votes 134 35.26%

Is FIP or ESEA a better dividend stock?

FTAI Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Euroseas pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. FTAI Infrastructure pays out -6.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Euroseas pays out 14.8% 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.

Does the media favor FIP or ESEA?

In the previous week, Euroseas had 3 more articles in the media than FTAI Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Euroseas and 3 mentions for FTAI Infrastructure. FTAI Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Euroseas' score of 0.64 indicating that FTAI Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FTAI Infrastructure	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Euroseas	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is FIP or ESEA more profitable?

Euroseas has a net margin of 54.21% compared to FTAI Infrastructure's net margin of -44.32%. Euroseas' return on equity of 34.73% beat FTAI Infrastructure's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FTAI Infrastructure	-44.32%	-46.25%	-6.13%
Euroseas	54.21%	34.73%	20.86%

Which has higher valuation & earnings, FIP or ESEA?

Euroseas has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FTAI Infrastructure. FTAI Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Euroseas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
FTAI Infrastructure	$320.47M	2.64	-$121.34M	-$1.98	-3.76
Euroseas	$189.36M	1.22	$114.55M	$16.22	2.04

Summary

Euroseas beats FTAI Infrastructure on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.