MCFT vs. MPX, MBUU, GHG, SNBR, MYPS, CVEO, SGC, VTRU, EEX, and APEI
Should you be buying MasterCraft Boat stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MasterCraft Boat include Marine Products (MPX), Malibu Boats (MBUU), GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG), Sleep Number (SNBR), PLAYSTUDIOS (MYPS), Civeo (CVEO), Superior Group of Companies (SGC), Vitru (VTRU), Emerald (EEX), and American Public Education (APEI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Marine Products (NYSE:MPX) and MasterCraft Boat (NASDAQ:MCFT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
Marine Products has a net margin of 10.40% compared to Marine Products' net margin of 8.26%. MasterCraft Boat's return on equity of 23.29% beat Marine Products' return on equity.
Marine Products presently has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 53.40%. MasterCraft Boat has a consensus target price of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.50%. Given MasterCraft Boat's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Marine Products is more favorable than MasterCraft Boat.
13.9% of Marine Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of MasterCraft Boat shares are held by institutional investors. 75.7% of Marine Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of MasterCraft Boat shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MasterCraft Boat has higher revenue and earnings than Marine Products. MasterCraft Boat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marine Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MasterCraft Boat received 125 more outperform votes than Marine Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.79% of users gave MasterCraft Boat an outperform vote while only 58.84% of users gave Marine Products an outperform vote.
Marine Products has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MasterCraft Boat has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MasterCraft Boat had 2 more articles in the media than Marine Products. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for MasterCraft Boat and 1 mentions for Marine Products. Marine Products' average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat MasterCraft Boat's score of 0.00 indicating that MasterCraft Boat is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
MasterCraft Boat beats Marine Products on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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