Matson (NYSE:MATX – Get Free Report) and Performance Shipping (NASDAQ:PSHG – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Risk & Volatility
Matson has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Performance Shipping has a beta of -0.14, meaning that its stock price is 114% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Matson and Performance Shipping”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Matson | $3.34 billion | 1.99 | $444.80 million | $14.96 | 14.92 |
| Performance Shipping | $84.17 million | 0.26 | $49.97 million | $0.92 | 1.93 |
Matson has higher revenue and earnings than Performance Shipping. Performance Shipping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Matson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Matson and Performance Shipping’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Matson | 13.41% | 16.94% | 10.01% |
| Performance Shipping | 29.70% | 10.21% | 5.48% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Matson and Performance Shipping, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Matson | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3.20 |
| Performance Shipping | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
Matson presently has a consensus price target of $232.33, suggesting a potential upside of 4.12%. Given Matson’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Matson is more favorable than Performance Shipping.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
84.8% of Matson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.9% of Performance Shipping shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Matson shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Performance Shipping shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Matson beats Performance Shipping on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Matson
Matson, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of ocean transportation and logistics services. It operates through two segments, Ocean Transportation and Logistics. The Ocean Transportation segment offers ocean freight transportation services to the domestic non-contiguous economies of Hawaii, Japan, Alaska, and Guam, as well as to other island economies in Micronesia. It primarily transports dry containers of mixed commodities, refrigerated commodities, food products, beverages, building materials, automobiles, and household goods; livestock; seafood; general sustenance cargo; and garments, footwear, e-commerce, and other retail merchandise. This segment also operates an expedited service from China to Long Beach, California, and various islands in the South Pacific, as well as Okinawa, Japan; and provides stevedoring, refrigerated cargo services, inland transportation, container equipment maintenance, and other terminal services to ocean carriers on the Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, as well as in the Alaska locations of Anchorage, Kodiak, and Dutch Harbor. In addition, it offers vessel management and container transshipment services. The Logistics segment provides multimodal transportation brokerage services, including domestic and international rail intermodal, long-haul and regional highway trucking, specialized hauling, flat-bed and project, less-than-truckload, and expedited freight services; less-than-container load consolidation and freight forwarding services; warehousing and distribution services; supply chain management services, and non-vessel operating common carrier freight forwarding services. It serves the U.S. military, freight forwarders, retailers, consumer goods, automobile manufacturers, and other customers. The company was formerly known as Alexander & Baldwin Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Matson, Inc. in June 2012. Matson, Inc. was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.
About Performance Shipping
Performance Shipping Inc. provides shipping transportation services through its tanker vessels worldwide. As of December 31, 2023, its fleet consisted of seven Aframax tanker vessels with a combined carrying capacity of 735,910 DWT. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Athens, Greece.
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