SEACOR Marine (SMHI) Competitors

FTAI Infrastructure (NASDAQ:FIP) and SEACOR Marine (NYSE:SMHI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.

Which has better earnings and valuation, FIP or SMHI?

SEACOR Marine has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FTAI Infrastructure. SEACOR Marine is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FTAI Infrastructure, 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
FTAI Infrastructure	$320.47M	2.12	-$121.34M	-$1.98	-3.01
SEACOR Marine	$279.51M	0.63	-$9.31M	-$1.68	-3.82

Do analysts recommend FIP or SMHI?

FTAI Infrastructure presently has a consensus target price of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 92.95%. Given FTAI Infrastructure's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe FTAI Infrastructure is more favorable than SEACOR Marine.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FTAI Infrastructure	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
SEACOR Marine	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has more risk & volatility, FIP or SMHI?

FTAI Infrastructure has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEACOR Marine has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is FIP or SMHI more profitable?

SEACOR Marine has a net margin of -16.81% compared to FTAI Infrastructure's net margin of -44.32%. SEACOR Marine's return on equity of -13.32% beat FTAI Infrastructure's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FTAI Infrastructure	-44.32%	-46.25%	-6.13%
SEACOR Marine	-16.81%	-13.32%	-6.25%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in FIP or SMHI?

87.4% of FTAI Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.1% of SEACOR Marine shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of FTAI Infrastructure shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.6% of SEACOR Marine shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media favor FIP or SMHI?

In the previous week, SEACOR Marine had 1 more articles in the media than FTAI Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for SEACOR Marine and 1 mentions for FTAI Infrastructure. FTAI Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 1.94 beat SEACOR Marine's score of 1.58 indicating that FTAI Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FTAI Infrastructure	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
SEACOR Marine	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FIP or SMHI?

SEACOR Marine received 102 more outperform votes than FTAI Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave FTAI Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 65.06% of users gave SEACOR Marine an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FTAI Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 6 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
SEACOR Marine	Outperform Votes 108 65.06%	Underperform Votes 58 34.94%

Summary

FTAI Infrastructure beats SEACOR Marine on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.