SMHI vs. GNK, LIND, FLX, ASC, SB, PANL, CLCO, PAMT, PAL, and FLYX
Should you be buying SEACOR Marine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SEACOR Marine include Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), BingEx (FLX), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Safe Bulkers (SB), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Cool (CLCO), Pamt (PAMT), Proficient Auto Logistics (PAL), and flyExclusive (FLYX). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
SEACOR Marine vs.
SEACOR Marine (NYSE:SMHI) and Genco Shipping & Trading (NYSE:GNK) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
Genco Shipping & Trading received 217 more outperform votes than SEACOR Marine when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.06% of users gave SEACOR Marine an outperform vote while only 61.90% of users gave Genco Shipping & Trading an outperform vote.
Genco Shipping & Trading has a consensus target price of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 71.83%. Given Genco Shipping & Trading's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Genco Shipping & Trading is more favorable than SEACOR Marine.
SEACOR Marine has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genco Shipping & Trading has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
59.0% of SEACOR Marine shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of Genco Shipping & Trading shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.6% of SEACOR Marine shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Genco Shipping & Trading 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.
SEACOR Marine has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Genco Shipping & Trading. SEACOR Marine is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genco Shipping & Trading, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Genco Shipping & Trading has a net margin of 18.06% compared to SEACOR Marine's net margin of -16.81%. Genco Shipping & Trading's return on equity of 7.82% beat SEACOR Marine's return on equity.
In the previous week, Genco Shipping & Trading had 4 more articles in the media than SEACOR Marine. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Genco Shipping & Trading and 1 mentions for SEACOR Marine. SEACOR Marine's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Genco Shipping & Trading's score of 1.02 indicating that SEACOR Marine is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Genco Shipping & Trading beats SEACOR Marine on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SMHI) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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