Head to Head Comparison: Global Ship Lease (NYSE:GSL) vs. Heidmar Maritime (NASDAQ:HMR)

Heidmar Maritime (NASDAQ:HMR) and Global Ship Lease (NYSE:GSL) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

50.1% of Global Ship Lease shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of Global Ship Lease shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Heidmar Maritime and Global Ship Lease, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Heidmar Maritime	1	0	1	0	2.00
Global Ship Lease	0	2	2	0	2.50

Heidmar Maritime currently has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 421.76%. Global Ship Lease has a consensus price target of $33.50, suggesting a potential downside of 6.41%. Given Heidmar Maritime’s higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Heidmar Maritime is more favorable than Global Ship Lease.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Heidmar Maritime and Global Ship Lease”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Heidmar Maritime	$28.95 million	1.93	$1.91 million	$0.01	95.83
Global Ship Lease	$711.05 million	1.80	$353.63 million	$11.14	3.21

Global Ship Lease has higher revenue and earnings than Heidmar Maritime. Global Ship Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Heidmar Maritime, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Heidmar Maritime and Global Ship Lease’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Heidmar Maritime	N/A	N/A	N/A
Global Ship Lease	53.62%	23.98%	14.94%

Summary

Global Ship Lease beats Heidmar Maritime on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Heidmar Maritime

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.

About Global Ship Lease

Global Ship Lease, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in owning and chartering of containerships under fixed-rate charters to container shipping companies worldwide. As of March 11, 2024, it owned 68 mid-sized and smaller containerships, ranging from 2,207 to 11,040 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU), with an aggregate capacity of 375,406 TEU. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Athens, Greece.