MBUU vs. MPX, MCFT, BWMX, SBGI, SWBI, XPOF, GTN, GTN.A, BALY, and RGR
Should you be buying Malibu Boats stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Malibu Boats include Marine Products (MPX), MasterCraft Boat (MCFT), Betterware de México, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (BWMX), Sinclair (SBGI), Smith & Wesson Brands (SWBI), Xponential Fitness (XPOF), Gray Television (GTN), Gray Television (GTN.A), Bally's (BALY), and Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Marine Products (NYSE:MPX) and Malibu Boats (NASDAQ:MBUU) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
13.9% of Marine Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.4% of Malibu Boats shares are held by institutional investors. 75.7% of Marine Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Malibu Boats shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Marine Products has a net margin of 10.87% compared to Marine Products' net margin of 5.32%. Malibu Boats' return on equity of 28.84% beat Marine Products' return on equity.
Malibu Boats has higher revenue and earnings than Marine Products. Marine Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Malibu Boats, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marine Products has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Malibu Boats has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Malibu Boats had 5 more articles in the media than Marine Products. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Malibu Boats and 5 mentions for Marine Products. Marine Products' average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Malibu Boats' score of 0.00 indicating that Malibu Boats is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Marine Products currently has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 42.22%. Malibu Boats has a consensus target price of $49.00, suggesting a potential upside of 45.75%. Given Marine Products' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Malibu Boats is more favorable than Marine Products.
Malibu Boats received 196 more outperform votes than Marine Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.11% of users gave Malibu Boats an outperform vote while only 58.84% of users gave Marine Products an outperform vote.
Summary
Malibu Boats beats Marine Products on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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