PII vs. HAS, MAT, BC, RGR, JOUT, MPX, JAKK, DOOO, CHPT, and ADSE
Should you be buying Polaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Polaris include Hasbro (HAS), Mattel (MAT), Brunswick (BC), Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), Marine Products (MPX), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), BRP (DOOO), ChargePoint (CHPT), and ADS-TEC Energy (ADSE).
Hasbro (NASDAQ:HAS) and Polaris (NYSE:PII) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
Hasbro has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Polaris has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hasbro pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Polaris pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Hasbro pays out -27.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Polaris pays out 38.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Hasbro has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Polaris has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Hasbro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
91.8% of Hasbro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.1% of Polaris shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Hasbro shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Polaris shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Polaris has a net margin of 4.63% compared to Polaris' net margin of -29.60%. Hasbro's return on equity of 31.39% beat Polaris' return on equity.
Hasbro presently has a consensus target price of $68.17, indicating a potential upside of 16.62%. Polaris has a consensus target price of $100.27, indicating a potential upside of 28.90%. Given Hasbro's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Polaris is more favorable than Hasbro.
Polaris has higher revenue and earnings than Hasbro. Hasbro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Polaris, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Polaris received 12 more outperform votes than Hasbro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.78% of users gave Polaris an outperform vote while only 58.00% of users gave Hasbro an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Polaris had 6 more articles in the media than Hasbro. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Polaris and 4 mentions for Hasbro. Polaris' average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Hasbro's score of 0.69 indicating that Hasbro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Polaris beats Hasbro on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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