ESEA vs. GRIN, GASS, SHIP, CPLP, HSHP, DSX, SMHI, PANL, IMPP, and TORO
Should you be buying Euroseas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Euroseas include Grindrod Shipping (GRIN), StealthGas (GASS), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), Himalaya Shipping (HSHP), Diana Shipping (DSX), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), and Toro (TORO). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Grindrod Shipping (NASDAQ:GRIN) and Euroseas (NASDAQ:ESEA) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
Grindrod Shipping has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Euroseas has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Grindrod Shipping currently has a consensus target price of $12.50, suggesting a potential downside of 9.09%. Given Euroseas' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Grindrod Shipping is more favorable than Euroseas.
Euroseas has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Grindrod Shipping. Grindrod Shipping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Euroseas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Grindrod Shipping had 1 more articles in the media than Euroseas. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Grindrod Shipping and 1 mentions for Euroseas. Grindrod Shipping's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Euroseas' score of 0.07 indicating that Euroseas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Euroseas received 217 more outperform votes than Grindrod Shipping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.71% of users gave Euroseas an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Grindrod Shipping an outperform vote.
Grindrod Shipping pays an annual dividend of $0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Euroseas pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Grindrod Shipping pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Euroseas pays out 14.6% 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 has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Euroseas is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Euroseas has a net margin of 60.50% compared to Euroseas' net margin of -2.49%. Grindrod Shipping's return on equity of 45.15% beat Euroseas' return on equity.
6.3% of Euroseas shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.8% of Grindrod Shipping shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 55.9% of Euroseas shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Euroseas beats Grindrod Shipping on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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