MPX vs. MCFT, MBUU, VTRU, REAL, FUBO, JOUT, WOW, LIND, NRDY, and LINC
Should you be buying Marine Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marine Products include MasterCraft Boat (MCFT), Malibu Boats (MBUU), Vitru (VTRU), RealReal (REAL), fuboTV (FUBO), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), WideOpenWest (WOW), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Nerdy (NRDY), and Lincoln Educational Services (LINC). 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 superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
Marine Products currently has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 54.44%. MasterCraft Boat has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.90%. Given Marine Products' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Marine Products is more favorable than MasterCraft Boat.
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.
Marine Products has a net margin of 10.40% compared to MasterCraft Boat's net margin of 8.26%. Marine Products' return on equity of 23.29% beat MasterCraft Boat's return on equity.
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.
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.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of MasterCraft Boat shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, MasterCraft Boat had 8 more articles in the media than Marine Products. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for MasterCraft Boat and 0 mentions for Marine Products. MasterCraft Boat's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Marine Products' 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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