MBUU vs. MPX, MCFT, BYON, GTN, SWBI, MNRO, GTN.A, RGR, AMC, and UTI
Should you be buying Malibu Boats stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Malibu Boats include Marine Products (MPX), MasterCraft Boat (MCFT), Beyond (BYON), Gray Television (GTN), Smith & Wesson Brands (SWBI), Monro (MNRO), Gray Television (GTN.A), Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR), AMC Entertainment (AMC), and Universal Technical Institute (UTI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Marine Products (NYSE:MPX) and Malibu Boats (NASDAQ:MBUU) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Marine Products presently has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 32.34%. Malibu Boats has a consensus price target of $43.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.75%. Given Malibu Boats' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Marine Products is more favorable than Malibu Boats.
Marine Products has a net margin of 10.40% compared to Marine Products' net margin of -5.19%. Malibu Boats' return on equity of 23.29% beat Marine Products' return on equity.
Marine Products has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Malibu Boats has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Malibu Boats has higher revenue and earnings than Marine Products. Malibu Boats is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marine Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Malibu Boats had 39 more articles in the media than Marine Products. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Malibu Boats and 5 mentions for Marine Products. Malibu Boats' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Marine Products' score of 0.11 indicating that Marine Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Malibu Boats received 199 more outperform votes than Marine Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.17% of users gave Malibu Boats an outperform vote while only 58.84% of users gave Marine Products an outperform vote.
13.9% of Marine Products shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Malibu Boats shares are owned by institutional investors. 75.7% of Marine Products shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Malibu Boats shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Marine Products and Malibu Boats tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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