RGR vs. JOUT, MPX, JAKK, HAS, MAT, BC, PII, VSTO, SWBI, and NPK
Should you be buying Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. include Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), Marine Products (MPX), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Hasbro (HAS), Mattel (MAT), Brunswick (BC), Polaris (PII), Vista Outdoor (VSTO), Smith & Wesson Brands (SWBI), and National Presto Industries (NPK).
Johnson Outdoors (NASDAQ:JOUT) and Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE:RGR) 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 institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Johnson Outdoors. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Johnson Outdoors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Johnson Outdoors has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has a net margin of 7.71% compared to Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s net margin of 0.82%. Johnson Outdoors' return on equity of 12.30% beat Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s return on equity.
In the previous week, Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. had 4 more articles in the media than Johnson Outdoors. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. and 0 mentions for Johnson Outdoors. Johnson Outdoors' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s score of 0.00 indicating that Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
64.1% of Johnson Outdoors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.0% of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. shares are held by institutional investors. 27.7% of Johnson Outdoors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Johnson Outdoors pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Johnson Outdoors pays out 280.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. pays out 27.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Johnson Outdoors has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years and Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Johnson Outdoors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. received 48 more outperform votes than Johnson Outdoors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.92% of users gave Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. an outperform vote while only 65.48% of users gave Johnson Outdoors an outperform vote.
Summary
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. beats Johnson Outdoors on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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