GES vs. MBUU, MLKN, WWW, AFYA, AMWD, LZB, SBGI, OSW, GDEN, and IMAX
Should you be buying Guess' stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guess' include Malibu Boats (MBUU), MillerKnoll (MLKN), Wolverine World Wide (WWW), Afya (AFYA), American Woodmark (AMWD), La-Z-Boy (LZB), Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI), OneSpaWorld (OSW), Golden Entertainment (GDEN), and IMAX (IMAX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Guess' vs.
Malibu Boats (NASDAQ:MBUU) and Guess' (NYSE:GES) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Guess' had 1 more articles in the media than Malibu Boats. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Guess' and 5 mentions for Malibu Boats. Malibu Boats' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Guess''s score of -0.59 indicating that Malibu Boats is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Malibu Boats currently has a consensus target price of $70.43, indicating a potential upside of 29.70%. Guess' has a consensus target price of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.00%. Given Malibu Boats' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Malibu Boats is more favorable than Guess'.
Guess' received 46 more outperform votes than Malibu Boats when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.41% of users gave Malibu Boats an outperform vote while only 54.95% of users gave Guess' an outperform vote.
Malibu Boats has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Guess'. Malibu Boats is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guess', indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.1% of Malibu Boats shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.8% of Guess' shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Malibu Boats shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 41.0% of Guess' shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Malibu Boats has a net margin of 12.40% compared to Guess''s net margin of 4.87%. Malibu Boats' return on equity of 31.40% beat Guess''s return on equity.
Malibu Boats has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guess' has a beta of 1.95, indicating that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Malibu Boats beats Guess' on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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