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$2.68 -0.01 (-0.37%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

BEST vs. KNOP, SPCE, SHIP, SMHI, FLYX, DLNG, TOUR, SAVE, CRGO, and YTRA

Should you be buying BEST stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BEST include KNOT Offshore Partners (KNOP), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), Seanergy Maritime (SHIP), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), flyExclusive (FLYX), Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG), Tuniu (TOUR), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Freightos (CRGO), and Yatra Online (YTRA). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.

BEST vs.

BEST (NYSE:BEST) and KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.

KNOT Offshore Partners has a net margin of 0.66% compared to BEST's net margin of -8.57%. KNOT Offshore Partners' return on equity of 2.84% beat BEST's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
BEST-8.57% N/A -9.93%
KNOT Offshore Partners 0.66%2.84%0.95%

5.1% of BEST shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.8% of KNOT Offshore Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 41.7% of BEST shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

BEST has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KNOT Offshore Partners has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

KNOT Offshore Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BEST. BEST is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KNOT Offshore Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
BEST$1.17B0.05-$114.71M-$5.26-0.51
KNOT Offshore Partners$296.76M0.72-$33.57M$0.05124.00

In the previous week, BEST had 15 more articles in the media than KNOT Offshore Partners. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for BEST and 1 mentions for KNOT Offshore Partners. BEST's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat KNOT Offshore Partners' score of 0.34 indicating that BEST is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
BEST
14 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
KNOT Offshore Partners
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

KNOT Offshore Partners received 264 more outperform votes than BEST when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.25% of users gave KNOT Offshore Partners an outperform vote while only 62.96% of users gave BEST an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
BESTOutperform Votes
51
62.96%
Underperform Votes
30
37.04%
KNOT Offshore PartnersOutperform Votes
315
63.25%
Underperform Votes
183
36.75%

Summary

KNOT Offshore Partners beats BEST on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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BEST vs. The Competition

MetricBESTTrucking & courier services, except air IndustryTransportation SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$54.07M$23.04B$336.66B$19.96B
Dividend YieldN/A3.06%4.38%3.49%
P/E Ratio-0.5110.0015.7136.42
Price / Sales0.051.0559.6217.94
Price / CashN/A8.1013.0121.28
Price / Book-1.463.252.094.59
Net Income-$114.71M$1.67B$570.30M$985.93M
7 Day Performance-0.70%-3.34%-1.57%0.45%
1 Month Performance-0.93%-10.72%-1.14%1.05%
1 Year Performance3.68%-16.59%14.02%24.67%

BEST Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BEST
BEST
0.5491 of 5 stars
$2.68
-0.4%
N/A+3.3%$54.07M$1.17B-0.513,572Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
KNOP
KNOT Offshore Partners
2.5614 of 5 stars
$6.20
+0.3%
N/A+9.3%$212.64M$296.76M124.001
SPCE
Virgin Galactic
1.7785 of 5 stars
$6.68
-1.9%
$25.50
+281.7%
-85.2%$196.64M$6.80M0.00800
SHIP
Seanergy Maritime
3.4455 of 5 stars
$8.61
-2.4%
$12.50
+45.2%
+47.3%$182.56M$110.23M3.6850
SMHI
SEACOR Marine
2.9802 of 5 stars
$6.48
+1.6%
$17.00
+162.5%
-44.6%$176.10M$279.51M-3.851,256
FLYX
flyExclusive
1.5181 of 5 stars
$2.19
-1.8%
$9.00
+311.0%
N/A$173.56M$315.36M0.00N/A
DLNG
Dynagas LNG Partners
N/A$4.19
-4.8%
N/A+63.7%$161.93M$148.88M6.982,020Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Down
TOUR
Tuniu
1.3792 of 5 stars
$1.03
flat
N/A-3.3%$127.56M$62.15M-103,000.001,920News Coverage
SAVE
Spirit Airlines
1.6378 of 5 stars
$1.08
flat
$2.00
+85.2%
-91.8%$118.28M$5.36B-0.1713,167Options Volume
CRGO
Freightos
1.9043 of 5 stars
$1.91
+4.4%
$4.75
+148.7%
-36.8%$90.33M$20.28M0.00350News Coverage
Gap Up
YTRA
Yatra Online
3.3047 of 5 stars
$1.39
-0.7%
$4.00
+187.8%
-9.7%$88.36M$50.85M-69.501,268

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This page (NYSE:BEST) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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