MBUU vs. MCFT, RVSN, VMAR, VEEE, MPX, GD, HII, TGNA, PRKS, and UA
Should you be buying Malibu Boats stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Malibu Boats include MasterCraft Boat (MCFT), Rail Vision (RVSN), Vision Marine Technologies (VMAR), Twin Vee Powercats (VEEE), Marine Products (MPX), General Dynamics (GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), TEGNA (TGNA), United Parks & Resorts (PRKS), and Under Armour (UA).
Malibu Boats vs.
Malibu Boats (NASDAQ:MBUU) and MasterCraft Boat (NASDAQ:MCFT) 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 institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Malibu Boats received 79 more outperform votes than MasterCraft Boat when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.03% of users gave MasterCraft Boat an outperform vote while only 64.51% of users gave Malibu Boats an outperform vote.
Malibu Boats presently has a consensus price target of $42.83, indicating a potential upside of 24.12%. MasterCraft Boat has a consensus price target of $20.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.23%. Given Malibu Boats' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Malibu Boats is more favorable than MasterCraft Boat.
Malibu Boats has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MasterCraft Boat has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MasterCraft Boat has a net margin of -2.29% compared to Malibu Boats' net margin of -12.09%. MasterCraft Boat's return on equity of 3.74% beat Malibu Boats' return on equity.
91.4% of Malibu Boats shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of MasterCraft Boat shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Malibu Boats shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of MasterCraft Boat shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Malibu Boats had 3 more articles in the media than MasterCraft Boat. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Malibu Boats and 7 mentions for MasterCraft Boat. MasterCraft Boat's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Malibu Boats' score of 0.96 indicating that MasterCraft Boat is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MasterCraft Boat has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Malibu Boats. MasterCraft Boat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Malibu Boats, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MasterCraft Boat beats Malibu Boats on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MBUU) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
