MPX vs. MCFT, MBUU, EEX, LIND, AGS, CVEO, REAL, LINC, MCS, and VTRU
Should you be buying Marine Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marine Products include MasterCraft Boat (MCFT), Malibu Boats (MBUU), Emerald (EEX), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), PlayAGS (AGS), Civeo (CVEO), RealReal (REAL), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Marcus (MCS), and Vitru (VTRU). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
MasterCraft Boat (NASDAQ:MCFT) and Marine Products (NYSE:MPX) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
MasterCraft Boat has a net margin of 10.66% compared to MasterCraft Boat's net margin of 10.40%. Marine Products' return on equity of 32.01% beat MasterCraft Boat's return on equity.
MasterCraft Boat presently has a consensus target price of $24.67, suggesting a potential upside of 22.84%. Marine Products has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 32.01%. Given MasterCraft Boat's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Marine Products is more favorable than MasterCraft Boat.
97.6% of MasterCraft Boat shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.9% of Marine Products shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of MasterCraft Boat shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 75.7% of Marine Products shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MasterCraft Boat has higher revenue and earnings than Marine Products. MasterCraft Boat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marine Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Marine Products had 4 more articles in the media than MasterCraft Boat. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Marine Products and 5 mentions for MasterCraft Boat. MasterCraft Boat's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Marine Products' score of 0.00 indicating that Marine Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MasterCraft Boat received 124 more outperform votes than Marine Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.73% of users gave MasterCraft Boat an outperform vote while only 58.84% of users gave Marine Products an outperform vote.
MasterCraft Boat has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marine Products has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MasterCraft Boat beats Marine Products on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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