Head to Head Analysis: Heidmar Maritime (HMR) and The Competition

Heidmar Maritime (NASDAQ:HMR) is one of 66 publicly-traded companies in the “TRANS – SHIP” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Heidmar Maritime to similar businesses based on the strength of its profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Heidmar Maritime	1	0	1	0	2.00
Heidmar Maritime Competitors	639	1894	2114	101	2.35

Heidmar Maritime currently has a consensus target price of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 327.35%. As a group, “TRANS – SHIP” companies have a potential upside of 6.97%. Given Heidmar Maritime’s higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Heidmar Maritime is more favorable than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

44.8% of shares of all “TRANS – SHIP” companies are owned by institutional investors. 16.8% of shares of all “TRANS – SHIP” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Heidmar Maritime and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Heidmar Maritime	$27.66 million	$1.91 million	117.00
Heidmar Maritime Competitors	$2.85 billion	$482.35 million	-2.64

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

Profitability

This table compares Heidmar Maritime and its peers’ 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
Heidmar Maritime Competitors	20.92%	8.73%	5.04%

Summary

Heidmar Maritime peers beat Heidmar Maritime on 9 of the 12 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.