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Navios Maritime Partners LPNMMCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Industrials›Marine Shipping

Diversified shipping company operating containerships, dry bulk carriers and tankers, part of the Navios group.

≈ A diversified shipping holding companyMomentum strong 69
Mkt cap
$2.42B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
63%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$15.7M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
3.9×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+0.8 pp
WACC 8.1%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
104 days
18 Feb 2027
Close · USD$85.33
1D+1.5%
1W-5.2%
1M-7.2%
3M+8.3%
6M+13.8%
YTD+62.8%
1Y+76.2%
ATR %3.3%
Beta0.56
52w lowhigh12.0% off high

What Navios Maritime Partners LP does

Diversified shipping company operating containerships, dry bulk carriers and tankers, part of the Navios group.

Charters its ships to operators, mostly on multi-year fixed-rate contracts that give a visible income stream, with some vessels on shorter or market-linked rates. Angeliki Frangou, who leads the wider Navios group, is its chairwoman and chief executive.

In one line: A diversified shipping holding company.

Products and services

  • Container vessel chartering
  • Dry bulk carrier chartering
  • Tanker chartering

Customers

  • Container liner operators
  • Commodity traders
  • Oil majors

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Shipping
  • Diversified shipping…
  • Vessel ownership & chartering

What could go right

  • Multi-segment shipping cycle diversification
  • Fleet growth via acquisitions

What could go wrong

  • Freight-rate cyclicality across segments
  • Leverage from vessel acquisitions

Moat: narrow (scale). Broad multi-segment fleet diversifies cash flow across shipping cycles better than single-segment peers.

Headquarters: Monaco · Founded: 2007

Named competitors

Navios Maritime Partners LP at a glance

Size Navios Maritime Partners LP (NMM) is a United States Industrials company (Marine Shipping) with a market value of $2.42B, the 1679th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $85.33 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 13.8%, against +4.5% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 7th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 19.3% over the last twelve months (peer median +10.3%); the operating margin is 39.3% (peer median 21.5%).

Valuation It trades at 3.9× forward earnings against a peer median of 8.7× (2nd cheapest of 19).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 0.8 points above its cost of capital (8.1% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 2.2% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 18 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026NMM 117Peer median 103
Six months, rebased to 100: Navios Maritime Partners LP against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Navios Maritime Partners LP financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$1.56B$1.34B$1.33B$1.31B$1.21B
Revenue growth—+1%+2%+8%—
Gross profit$1.10B$906M$882M$859M$829M
EBITDA$938M$767M$737M$717M$685M
Net income$569M$279M$360M$425M$568M
Free cash flown/a-$36.0M$223M$278M$330M
Capital expendituren/a$541M$260M$282M$177M
Total debt$2.25B$2.37B$2.37B$2.13B$2.26B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Navios Maritime Partners LP competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

0%+20%+40%-20%-10%0%2510601975CAPT2343DACGESHIP2637601083000088SBLK028670CKN93033877SNIZIM2606HAUTO6010229110NMM6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Navios Maritime Partners LP is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-20%0%+20%5×10×15×25106019752343DACGESHIP2637601083000088SBLK028670CKN93033877ZIMHAUTONMMRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Navios Maritime Partners LP is the large dot.

Navios Maritime Partners LP competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (NMM vs DAC vs SBLK vs CMRE)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Navios Maritime Partners LP NMM$2.42B+14%+19%39%3.9×n/a
Danaos DAC$2.70B+10%+2%48%5.3×-8.7%
Star Bulk Carriers SBLK$2.99B0%+6%28%5.7×-0.1%
Costamare CMRE$1.54B-28%-42%44%5.2×-6.9%
Genco Shipping & Trading GNK$1.13B0%+26%17%10.2×n/a

How Navios Maritime Partners LP compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Navios Maritime Partners LP against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureNMMPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-7.2%-8.8%8th highest of 21
6-month return+13.8%+4.5%7th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-12.0%-16.2%7th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+19.3%+10.3%4th highest of 20
Operating margin39.3%21.5%4th highest of 21
Forward P/E3.9×8.7×2nd cheapest of 19
ROIC minus cost of capital+0.8 pp+1.8 pp10th lowest of 21
EV / EBITDA4.4×6.8×3rd cheapest of 15
Net debt / EBITDA1.9×1.3×7th most indebted of 16

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Navios Maritime Partners LP NMMUnited States$2.42B+14%+19%39%3.9×n/an/a
T.S. Lines 2510.HKHong Kong$2.48B+38%-4%19%5.8×-6.9%+9.8%
Nanjing Tanker 601975.SSChina$2.50B-21%+12%26%9.0×-8.4%+7.6%
Capital Tankers CAPT.OLNorway$2.57B+45%n/a37%7.3×n/an/a
Pacific Basin Shipping 2343.HKHong Kong$2.22B+6%-6%6%9.0×7.9%+7.3%
Danaos DACUnited States$2.70B+10%+2%48%5.3×-8.7%+17.7%
Great Eastern Shipping GESHIP.NSIndia$2.16B-8%+24%42%5.1×8.2%+10.1%
Wisdom Marine Lines 2637.TWTaiwan$2.13B+28%+10%33%9.1×-1.8%+7.2%
Shanghai Jinjiang Shipping (Group) 601083.SSChina$2.75B+17%+11%24%11.3×-18.7%+15.2%
Shenzhen Yan Tian Port 000088.SZChina$2.97B+2%+19%12%16.5×21.8%+10.1%
Star Bulk Carriers SBLKUnited States$2.99B0%+6%28%5.7×-0.1%+8.5%
PanOcean 028670.KSSouth Korea$1.91B-12%+24%9%5.0×n/an/a
Clarkson CKN.LUnited Kingdom$1.90B-5%+15%14%13.9×5.2%+12.0%
Sumitomo Warehouse 9303.TJapan$1.87B+4%+2%6%16.3×11.3%+0.4%
CSSC (Hong Kong) Shipping 3877.HKHong Kong$1.85B-4%-10%60%7.2×-3.2%+14.9%
Stolt-Nielsen SNI.OLNorway$1.82B+4%-5%11%8.8×-4.5%+9.5%
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services ZIMUnited States$3.37B+5%-25%6%3.7×2.7%+11.6%
U-Ming Marine Transport 2606.TWTaiwan$1.70B+6%+13%29%8.7×-3.8%+12.8%
Hoegh Autoliners HAUTO.OLNorway$3.64B+20%-4%30%9.6×-0.1%+16.4%
Ningbo Ocean Shipping 601022.SSChina$1.58B-7%+13%11%n/an/an/a
NS United Kaiun Kaisha,Ltd 9110.TJapan$1.58B+39%+11%11%n/a-5.0%+10.7%

Questions

Who are Navios Maritime Partners LP's main competitors?
Named competitors: Danaos Corporation (DAC), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Costamare (CMRE), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes T.S. Lines (2510.HK), Nanjing Tanker (601975.SS), Capital Tankers (CAPT.OL), Pacific Basin Shipping (2343.HK), Danaos (DAC), Great Eastern Shipping (GESHIP.NS).
Is Navios Maritime Partners LP expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 3.9× against a peer median of 8.7×, 2nd cheapest of 19 in its peer set.
How has Navios Maritime Partners LP stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +13.8% against +4.5% for the median peer; over one year +76.2%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.