Financial Analysis: Heidmar Maritime (HMR) versus Its Rivals

Heidmar Maritime (NASDAQ:HMR) is one of 1,051 publicly-traded companies in the “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Heidmar Maritime to similar companies based on the strength of its dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Heidmar Maritime and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Heidmar Maritime	1	1	1	0	2.00
Heidmar Maritime Competitors	5982	26994	40850	2423	2.52

Heidmar Maritime presently has a consensus target price of $2.62, suggesting a potential upside of 108.33%. As a group, “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” companies have a potential upside of 28.96%. Given Heidmar Maritime’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Heidmar Maritime is more favorable than its competitors.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

30.8% of shares of all “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” companies are held by institutional investors. 15.3% of shares of all “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Heidmar Maritime and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Heidmar Maritime	$55.85 million	-$22.56 million	63.00
Heidmar Maritime Competitors	$14.81 billion	$5.51 billion	-0.80

Heidmar Maritime’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Heidmar Maritime. Heidmar Maritime is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Risk and Volatility

Heidmar Maritime has a beta of -0.31, indicating that its share price is 131% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heidmar Maritime’s competitors have a beta of -3.76, indicating that their average share price is 476% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Heidmar Maritime and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Heidmar Maritime	2.47%	21.68%	3.84%
Heidmar Maritime Competitors	-456.96%	19.46%	6.50%

Summary

Heidmar Maritime competitors beat Heidmar Maritime on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

Heidmar Maritime Company Profile

Heidmar Maritime Holdings Corp. provides commercial and pool management services to the dry bulk, crude oil, and refined petroleum product tanker markets worldwide. It offers tanker pool and commercial management, dry bulk pool and commercial management, and fuel services. The company also operates a platform to invest in tanker or drybulk vessels offering a range of customized services for the investor, as well as engages in the sale and purchase of second-hand vessels and newbuilds in the tanker and drybulk sectors. In addition, it develops and operates eFleetWatch, a digital platform in the commercial management space, which provides pool partners with access to the data that they require for their own reporting and monitoring of their vessels. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Piraeus, Greece.