MCS vs. AMC, FUBO, JOUT, NRDY, VTRU, LIND, MPX, ONEW, CVEO, and RICK
Should you be buying Marcus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marcus include AMC Entertainment (AMC), fuboTV (FUBO), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Marine Products (MPX), OneWater Marine (ONEW), Civeo (CVEO), and RCI Hospitality (RICK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) and Marcus (NYSE:MCS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
AMC Entertainment presently has a consensus price target of $5.95, indicating a potential upside of 72.46%. Marcus has a consensus price target of $19.67, indicating a potential upside of 46.77%. Given Marcus' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe AMC Entertainment is more favorable than Marcus.
In the previous week, AMC Entertainment had 15 more articles in the media than Marcus. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for AMC Entertainment and 16 mentions for Marcus. AMC Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Marcus' score of 0.50 indicating that Marcus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
28.8% of AMC Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.6% of Marcus shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of AMC Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Marcus 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.
AMC Entertainment received 420 more outperform votes than Marcus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.98% of users gave Marcus an outperform vote while only 70.90% of users gave AMC Entertainment an outperform vote.
Marcus has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AMC Entertainment. AMC Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marcus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AMC Entertainment has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marcus has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Marcus has a net margin of 2.03% compared to Marcus' net margin of -8.24%. AMC Entertainment's return on equity of 3.19% beat Marcus' return on equity.
Summary
Marcus beats AMC Entertainment on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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