Pyxis Tankers (PXS) Competitors

Pyxis Tankers (NASDAQ:PXS) and Seanergy Maritime (NASDAQ:SHIP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.

Do analysts prefer PXS or SHIP?

Pyxis Tankers presently has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 175.48%. Seanergy Maritime has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 71.18%. Given Pyxis Tankers' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pyxis Tankers is more favorable than Seanergy Maritime.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pyxis Tankers	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Seanergy Maritime	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.33

Is PXS or SHIP more profitable?

Pyxis Tankers has a net margin of 65.17% compared to Seanergy Maritime's net margin of 28.37%. Pyxis Tankers' return on equity of 32.93% beat Seanergy Maritime's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pyxis Tankers	65.17%	32.93%	18.44%
Seanergy Maritime	28.37%	19.01%	9.30%

Which has more volatility & risk, PXS or SHIP?

Pyxis Tankers has a beta of 0.01, indicating that its share price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seanergy Maritime has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to PXS or SHIP?

In the previous week, Seanergy Maritime had 1 more articles in the media than Pyxis Tankers. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Seanergy Maritime and 0 mentions for Pyxis Tankers. Seanergy Maritime's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Pyxis Tankers' score of 0.00 indicating that Seanergy Maritime is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Pyxis Tankers	Neutral
Seanergy Maritime	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PXS or SHIP?

Seanergy Maritime received 226 more outperform votes than Pyxis Tankers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.04% of users gave Seanergy Maritime an outperform vote while only 70.92% of users gave Pyxis Tankers an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Pyxis Tankers	Outperform Votes 239 70.92%	Underperform Votes 98 29.08%
Seanergy Maritime	Outperform Votes 465 74.04%	Underperform Votes 163 25.96%

Do insiders & institutionals believe in PXS or SHIP?

56.2% of Pyxis Tankers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.4% of Seanergy Maritime shares are held by institutional investors. 54.6% of Pyxis Tankers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Seanergy Maritime shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, PXS or SHIP?

Pyxis Tankers has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Seanergy Maritime. Pyxis Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seanergy Maritime, 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
Pyxis Tankers	$45.47M	0.84	$37.04M	$2.80	1.30
Seanergy Maritime	$110.23M	1.32	$2.28M	$2.34	3.00

Summary

Seanergy Maritime beats Pyxis Tankers on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.