AGS vs. MCFT, CVEO, LINC, EEX, ONEW, GHG, FNKO, MPX, SSP, and IHRT
Should you be buying PlayAGS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PlayAGS include MasterCraft Boat (MCFT), Civeo (CVEO), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Emerald (EEX), OneWater Marine (ONEW), GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG), Funko (FNKO), Marine Products (MPX), E.W. Scripps (SSP), and iHeartMedia (IHRT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
PlayAGS (NYSE:AGS) and MasterCraft Boat (NASDAQ:MCFT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
MasterCraft Boat has higher revenue and earnings than PlayAGS. MasterCraft Boat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PlayAGS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MasterCraft Boat had 1 more articles in the media than PlayAGS. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for MasterCraft Boat and 2 mentions for PlayAGS. PlayAGS's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat MasterCraft Boat's score of 0.13 indicating that PlayAGS is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PlayAGS has a beta of 2.38, suggesting that its stock price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MasterCraft Boat has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MasterCraft Boat has a net margin of 10.66% compared to PlayAGS's net margin of 0.12%. MasterCraft Boat's return on equity of 32.01% beat PlayAGS's return on equity.
MasterCraft Boat received 127 more outperform votes than PlayAGS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.73% of users gave MasterCraft Boat an outperform vote while only 67.04% of users gave PlayAGS an outperform vote.
77.4% of PlayAGS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of MasterCraft Boat shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of PlayAGS shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of MasterCraft Boat shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
PlayAGS currently has a consensus target price of $12.20, indicating a potential upside of 45.93%. MasterCraft Boat has a consensus target price of $24.67, indicating a potential upside of 23.03%. Given PlayAGS's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PlayAGS is more favorable than MasterCraft Boat.
Summary
MasterCraft Boat beats PlayAGS on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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