MPX vs. RGR, JOUT, JAKK, HAS, MAT, BC, PII, MBUU, MCFT, and VMAR
Should you be buying Marine Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marine Products include Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Hasbro (HAS), Mattel (MAT), Brunswick (BC), Polaris (PII), Malibu Boats (MBUU), MasterCraft Boat (MCFT), and Vision Marine Technologies (VMAR).
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE:RGR) and Marine Products (NYSE:MPX) 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.
Marine Products has a net margin of 10.40% compared to Marine Products' net margin of 7.71%. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s return on equity of 23.29% beat Marine Products' return on equity.
Marine Products has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 56.25%. Given Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Marine Products is more favorable than Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc..
In the previous week, Marine Products' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'saverage media sentiment score.
64.0% of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.9% of Marine Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 75.7% of Marine Products shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has a beta of 0.31, suggesting that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marine Products has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Marine Products pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. pays out 27.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Marine Products pays out 55.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Marine Products has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Marine Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has higher revenue and earnings than Marine Products. Marine Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. received 82 more outperform votes than Marine Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.92% of users gave Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. an outperform vote while only 58.84% of users gave Marine Products an outperform vote.
Summary
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. beats Marine Products on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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