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PXS vs. IMPP, TOUR, YTRA, HMR, YGMZ, AIRT, TORO, HTCO, MESA, and WETO

Should you be buying Pyxis Tankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pyxis Tankers include Imperial Petroleum (IMPP), Tuniu (TOUR), Yatra Online (YTRA), Heidmar Maritime (HMR), MingZhu Logistics (YGMZ), Air T (AIRT), Toro (TORO), Caravelle International Group (HTCO), Mesa Air Group (MESA), and Webus International (WETO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.

Pyxis Tankers vs. Its Competitors

Imperial Petroleum (NASDAQ:IMPP) and Pyxis Tankers (NASDAQ:PXS) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Imperial Petroleum has a net margin of 29.79% compared to Pyxis Tankers' net margin of 6.26%. Imperial Petroleum's return on equity of 13.80% beat Pyxis Tankers' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Imperial Petroleum29.79% 13.80% 8.04%
Pyxis Tankers 6.26%5.39%2.87%

Imperial Petroleum presently has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 34.23%. Given Imperial Petroleum's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Imperial Petroleum is more favorable than Pyxis Tankers.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Imperial Petroleum
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Pyxis Tankers
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Imperial Petroleum has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pyxis Tankers has a beta of -0.63, meaning that its share price is 163% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Imperial Petroleum had 6 more articles in the media than Pyxis Tankers. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Imperial Petroleum and 2 mentions for Pyxis Tankers. Imperial Petroleum's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Pyxis Tankers' score of 0.45 indicating that Imperial Petroleum is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Imperial Petroleum Positive
Pyxis Tankers Neutral

94.4% of Imperial Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.2% of Pyxis Tankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Imperial Petroleum shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 54.6% of Pyxis Tankers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Imperial Petroleum has higher revenue and earnings than Pyxis Tankers. Pyxis Tankers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Imperial Petroleum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Imperial Petroleum$147.48M1.04$50.16M$1.024.38
Pyxis Tankers$51.54M0.59$12.87M-$0.04-72.00

Summary

Imperial Petroleum beats Pyxis Tankers on 15 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PXS vs. The Competition

MetricPyxis TankersTRANS IndustryTransportation SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$29.57M$2.52B$7.13B$10.14B
Dividend YieldN/A4.56%940.00%4.60%
P/E Ratio-72.0011.2213.7125.97
Price / Sales0.593.25640.81181.13
Price / Cash1.294.618.0260.44
Price / Book0.310.872.206.29
Net Income$12.87M$498.97M$556.72M$270.96M
7 Day Performance2.49%2.04%1.09%3.87%
1 Month Performance13.39%3.15%2.51%4.88%
1 Year Performance-42.28%-10.13%10.67%26.12%

Pyxis Tankers Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PXS
Pyxis Tankers
0.9331 of 5 stars
$2.88
+2.1%
N/A-42.9%$29.57M$51.54M-72.004Positive News
Short Interest ↑
IMPP
Imperial Petroleum
2.5954 of 5 stars
$3.43
+3.0%
N/A+9.0%$102.26M$147.48M2.7974News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
TOUR
Tuniu
3.0826 of 5 stars
$0.87
+2.1%
N/A+18.8%$101.84M$70.37M17.401,920Short Interest ↓
YTRA
Yatra Online
2.5366 of 5 stars
$1.43
flat
$3.00
+109.8%
-4.4%$88.77M$93.14M143.141,452Short Interest ↑
HMR
Heidmar Maritime
N/A$1.41
-0.4%
$5.00
+254.6%
N/A$82.01M$28.95M0.00N/A
YGMZ
MingZhu Logistics
1.1567 of 5 stars
$1.01
+12.1%
N/A-31.3%$77.45M$40.43M0.0080Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
AIRT
Air T
0.195 of 5 stars
$23.40
+1.2%
N/A+17.9%$59.13M$291.85M-8.60500Gap Up
TORO
Toro
0.9064 of 5 stars
$2.75
+0.4%
N/A-16.7%$52.51M$22.39M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
HTCO
Caravelle International Group
0.4525 of 5 stars
$9.28
-17.6%
N/AN/A$51.95M$108.18M0.0031Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
MESA
Mesa Air Group
0.4747 of 5 stars
$1.24
+1.2%
N/A+8.7%$51.92M$476.41M-0.291,838Short Interest ↑
WETO
Webus International
N/A$2.19
-1.8%
N/AN/A$48.18MN/A0.0027News Coverage
Gap Down

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This page (NASDAQ:PXS) was last updated on 9/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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