MCS vs. AMC, MCFT, NRDY, SNBR, CDRO, MPX, CVEO, SGC, LINC, and JOUT
Should you be buying Marcus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marcus include AMC Entertainment (AMC), MasterCraft Boat (MCFT), Nerdy (NRDY), Sleep Number (SNBR), Codere Online Luxembourg (CDRO), Marine Products (MPX), Civeo (CVEO), Superior Group of Companies (SGC), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), and Johnson Outdoors (JOUT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) and Marcus (NYSE:MCS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, valuation and institutional ownership.
Marcus has a net margin of 1.73% compared to Marcus' net margin of -6.75%. AMC Entertainment's return on equity of 2.66% beat Marcus' return on equity.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Marcus shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AMC Entertainment has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marcus has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
AMC Entertainment presently has a consensus target price of $5.54, indicating a potential upside of 3.55%. Marcus has a consensus target price of $19.67, indicating a potential upside of 78.14%. Given AMC Entertainment's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Marcus is more favorable than AMC Entertainment.
AMC Entertainment received 419 more outperform votes than Marcus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.03% of users gave Marcus an outperform vote while only 70.73% of users gave AMC Entertainment an outperform vote.
In the previous week, AMC Entertainment had 27 more articles in the media than Marcus. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for AMC Entertainment and 3 mentions for Marcus. Marcus' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat AMC Entertainment's score of 0.40 indicating that AMC Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Marcus beats AMC Entertainment on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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