IMAX vs. GPRO, WWW, MNRO, TILE, ACEL, SWBI, SBGI, AMC, AMRK, and BYON
Should you be buying IMAX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IMAX include GoPro (GPRO), Wolverine World Wide (WWW), Monro (MNRO), Interface (TILE), Accel Entertainment (ACEL), Smith & Wesson Brands (SWBI), Sinclair (SBGI), AMC Entertainment (AMC), A-Mark Precious Metals (AMRK), and Beyond (BYON). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
GoPro (NASDAQ:GPRO) and IMAX (NYSE:IMAX) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
In the previous week, IMAX had 28 more articles in the media than GoPro. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for IMAX and 9 mentions for GoPro. GoPro's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat IMAX's score of 0.00 indicating that IMAX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GoPro has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IMAX has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.1% of GoPro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of IMAX shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.4% of GoPro shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.3% of IMAX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
GoPro presently has a consensus target price of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 34.41%. IMAX has a consensus target price of $20.57, suggesting a potential upside of 27.06%. Given IMAX's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe GoPro is more favorable than IMAX.
IMAX has lower revenue, but higher earnings than GoPro. GoPro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IMAX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GoPro received 160 more outperform votes than IMAX when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.75% of users gave IMAX an outperform vote while only 64.15% of users gave GoPro an outperform vote.
IMAX has a net margin of 7.13% compared to IMAX's net margin of -5.29%. GoPro's return on equity of 9.47% beat IMAX's return on equity.
Summary
IMAX beats GoPro on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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