I noticed some Dry Bulk plays have reported today. Just my luck, they all chose to report today. But this will be a stretch update, it will be "updated" as the news floats in ;)

Shipper	31-Dec	31-Jan	29-Feb	28-Mar	30-Apr	30-May	30-Jun	31-Jul 
BHO*	15.20	13.23	11.90	10.38	11.00	11.50	10.92	11.10
DSX	31.46	29.51	28.50	25.97	30.36	34.99	30.71	30.43
DRYS	77.40	74.43	75.30	62.31	82.50	93.80	80.18	77.13
EXM	40.19	38.06	31.87	30.91	39.71	51.30	39.25	37.06
EGLE	26.55	24.72	26.63	25.71	29.43	33.34	29.57	29.04
ESEA	12.40	12.02	14.02	11.82	13.78	15.62	12.97	12.30
FREE	 6.00	 5.69	 5.10	 5.66	 6.87	 7.00	 6.28	 6.39
GNK	54.76	49.59	58.27	56.64	67.65	70.24	65.20	68.18
NM	12.25	11.55	11.11	 9.80	10.99	12.02	 9.69	 9.46
NMM	19.15	16.85	15.40	14.92	16.09	15.07	14.60	12.95
OCNF	19.23	19.51	22.03	22.73	22.64	26.52	23.17	19.41
PRGN	18.21	18.61	16.04	15.76	17.19	21.30	16.79	15.34
SBLK	12.85	11.48	11.96	11.46	12.58	13.98	11.79	11.24
TBSI*	33.06	33.31	34.44	31.00	40.18	46.58	39.95	36.54
DWT*							13.50	13.17
SB*							18.87	18.95
ULTR*								11.14 

* - No dividend or no recent dividend

Only FREE, GNK, SB slightly positive (Month-over-Month)

Comparative bulk rate Mar : Apr: May: Jun : July (from shipping.capitallink.com website)
Baltic Dry 8,069 : 9,356 : 11,440 : 9,589 : 8,341
Baltic Capesize 11,815 : 14,173 : 18,719 : 13,978 : 13,005
Baltic Panamax 7,896 : 8,972 : 9,912 : 9,627 : 7,517
Baltic Supramax 4,916 : 5,444 : 6,405 : 5,843 : 4,897
Baltic Handysize 2,435 : 2,789 : 3,304 : 2,713 : 2,554


Awrighty, I need to work on vessel shipping rate formatting- too messy to read.
For this month, use your visualization abilities--see the mountains. That's some steep rate drop-off, specially for Panamax and Supramax sized vessels


Okay, results
DSX - earnings more than double ($56.7 M vs $26 M), revenue nearly doubles ($86.4 M vs $44 M), dividend hike (91c/sh vs 85c/sh), revenue outlook higher than street numbers (last two items from other links)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080731/earns_diana_shipping.html?.v=...

FREE - Operating revenue grew 324%, lower EPS, increased quarterly
dividend to 20c/sh
http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/080731/147499.html

GNK - Not sure why the company is reporting results like it is- sometimes it is three months data, sometimes six month data, sometimes a comparison to last year. The table data further down is more clear--revenue more than 2X increase, net income 4X over comparative six months...need more time on this one
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080730/nyw108.html?.v=101

EXM - had one of their vessels run aground
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080724/0419095.html


The update continues...


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