MAT vs. HAS, BC, PII, RGR, JOUT, MPX, JAKK, LYV, RCI, and K
Should you be buying Mattel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mattel include Hasbro (HAS), Brunswick (BC), Polaris (PII), Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), Marine Products (MPX), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), Rogers Communications (RCI), and Kellanova (K).
Hasbro (NASDAQ:HAS) and Mattel (NASDAQ:MAT) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
Mattel has higher revenue and earnings than Hasbro. Hasbro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mattel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hasbro currently has a consensus target price of $68.17, indicating a potential upside of 16.74%. Mattel has a consensus target price of $22.78, indicating a potential upside of 28.18%. Given Hasbro's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Mattel is more favorable than Hasbro.
Mattel has a net margin of 5.38% compared to Mattel's net margin of -29.60%. Mattel's return on equity of 25.41% beat Hasbro's return on equity.
91.8% of Hasbro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of Mattel shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Hasbro shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Mattel shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hasbro has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mattel has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hasbro had 4 more articles in the media than Mattel. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Hasbro and 3 mentions for Mattel. Mattel's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Hasbro's score of 0.92 indicating that Hasbro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mattel received 218 more outperform votes than Hasbro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.59% of users gave Mattel an outperform vote while only 58.00% of users gave Hasbro an outperform vote.
Summary
Mattel beats Hasbro on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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