MCS vs. AMC, FUBO, JOUT, NRDY, VTRU, LIND, MPX, ONEW, CVEO, and RICK
Should you be buying Marcus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marcus include AMC Entertainment (AMC), fuboTV (FUBO), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Marine Products (MPX), OneWater Marine (ONEW), Civeo (CVEO), and RCI Hospitality (RICK).
AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) and Marcus (NYSE:MCS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Marcus has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AMC Entertainment. AMC Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marcus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marcus has a net margin of 2.03% compared to Marcus' net margin of -8.24%. AMC Entertainment's return on equity of 3.19% beat Marcus' return on equity.
AMC Entertainment received 420 more outperform votes than Marcus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.98% of users gave Marcus an outperform vote while only 70.84% of users gave AMC Entertainment an outperform vote.
28.8% of AMC Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.6% of Marcus shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of AMC Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Marcus shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, AMC Entertainment had 49 more articles in the media than Marcus. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for AMC Entertainment and 9 mentions for Marcus. AMC Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Marcus' score of 0.36 indicating that Marcus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AMC Entertainment presently has a consensus target price of $5.95, indicating a potential upside of 105.17%. Marcus has a consensus target price of $19.67, indicating a potential upside of 50.01%. Given Marcus' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe AMC Entertainment is more favorable than Marcus.
AMC Entertainment has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marcus has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Marcus beats AMC Entertainment on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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