Both Navios Maritime Containers L.P. (NASDAQ:NMCI) and Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRIN) are Shipping companies, competing one another. We will compare their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Navios Maritime Containers L.P.	133.92M	0.57	12.70M	0.38	5.22
Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd.	319.02M	0.30	20.64M	-3.53	0.00

Table 1 highlights Navios Maritime Containers L.P. and Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 shows Navios Maritime Containers L.P. and Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd.’s net margins, return on assets and return on equity.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Navios Maritime Containers L.P.	9.48%	0%	0%
Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd.	-6.47%	0%	0%

Analyst Ratings

Recommendations and Ratings for Navios Maritime Containers L.P. and Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd. can be find in next table.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Navios Maritime Containers L.P.	0	0	1	3.00
Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd.	0	0	0	0.00

Navios Maritime Containers L.P.’s upside potential currently stands at 309.09% and an $9 consensus price target.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

Institutional investors owned 10.38% of Navios Maritime Containers L.P. shares and 28.9% of Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd. shares. On the other hand, insiders owned about 22.7% of Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd.’s shares.

Performance

In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Navios Maritime Containers L.P.	-19.74%	-23.26%	0%	0%	0%	-30.04%
Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd.	0.21%	-10.32%	-13.34%	-42.05%	0%	-9.46%

For the past year Navios Maritime Containers L.P.’s stock price has bigger decline than Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd.

Summary

Navios Maritime Containers L.P. beats on 7 of the 10 factors Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd.

Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd., an international shipping company, owns, charters-in, and operates a fleet of drybulk carriers and tankers. The company operates in two businesses, Drybulk Carriers and Tankers. It operates a fleet of 25 owned drybulk carriers and 7 long-term chartered-in drybulk carriers that transport a range of bulk and breakbulk commodities, including ores, coal products, grains, forestry products, steel products, and fertilizers. The company also operates a fleet of 12 owned tankers and 3 long-term chartered-in tankers, which carry petroleum products, petrol, diesel, jet fuel, and naptha, as well as heavy fuel oil; and low hazard chemical products comprising liquid bulk vegetable oils. Its customers include trading houses, mining companies, industrial manufacturing companies, and oil companies, as well as traders of grains, steel, and forestry products. Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Singapore. Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd.(NasdaqGS:GRIN) operates independently of Grindrod Limited as of June 18, 2018.