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Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.
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Where Marine Shipping sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $SB-PC.
Marine Shipping
Crude tanker spot rates are tightening as Middle East supply route extensions add ton-miles per cargo barrel, compressing effective fleet supply; dry bulk rates are stabilising as Chinese iron ore restocking demand and firm steel output support Capesize bookings. Longer sea lanes — not fleet size — are the structural earnings lever.
Top industry ETF
$SEAU.S. Global Sea to Sky Cargo ETF
+17.6%YTD
+19.3%1Y
Fundamentals & catalyst
Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.
Key ratios
P/E
12.8How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.ROIC
5.8%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.Op margin
28.3%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.FCF yield
8.8%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).P/S
2.4Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.ROE
6.5%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.Gross margin
38.9%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.D/E
0.6Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.Quarterly trend
QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$74.4M+15.6%45.3%35.6%$0.20—
Q4 FY25$72.6M+1.5%42.0%31.1%$0.10$-8.8M
Q3 FY25$73.1M-3.7%39.4%29.1%$0.15$20.1M
Q2 FY25$65.7M-16.3%27.7%16.0%$-0.00$19.1M
Forward consensus
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$298.8M$285.1M – $312.5M$0.84$0.79 – $0.902
FY27$265.5M$252.6M – $278.4M$0.38$0.36 – $0.402
FY28$287.0M$273.4M – $300.6M$0.57$0.54 – $0.601
FY29$237.7M$226.4M – $248.9M$0.83$0.78 – $0.881
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