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Malibu Boats (MBUU) Competitors

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$35.50 -0.09 (-0.25%)
As of 01/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

MBUU vs. MCFT, RVSN, VEEE, FRZA, VMAR, MPX, GD, HII, PLTK, and CENT

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), Twin Vee Powercats (VEEE), Forza X1 (FRZA), Vision Marine Technologies (VMAR), Marine Products (MPX), General Dynamics (GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Playtika (PLTK), and Central Garden & Pet (CENT).

Malibu Boats vs.

Malibu Boats (NASDAQ:MBUU) and MasterCraft Boat (NASDAQ:MCFT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and community ranking.

Malibu Boats has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MasterCraft Boat has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Malibu Boats$829.03M0.84-$55.91M-$3.98-8.92
MasterCraft Boat$366.59M0.84$7.80M-$0.23-79.83

Malibu Boats presently has a consensus price target of $42.71, indicating a potential upside of 20.32%. MasterCraft Boat has a consensus price target of $20.75, indicating a potential upside of 13.02%. Given Malibu Boats' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Malibu Boats is more favorable than MasterCraft Boat.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Malibu Boats
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.43
MasterCraft Boat
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

Malibu Boats received 78 more outperform votes than MasterCraft Boat when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.64% of users gave MasterCraft Boat an outperform vote while only 64.74% of users gave Malibu Boats an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Malibu BoatsOutperform Votes
448
64.74%
Underperform Votes
244
35.26%
MasterCraft BoatOutperform Votes
370
67.64%
Underperform Votes
177
32.36%

91.4% of Malibu Boats shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of MasterCraft Boat shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Malibu Boats shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of MasterCraft Boat shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

MasterCraft Boat has a net margin of -1.08% compared to Malibu Boats' net margin of -10.90%. MasterCraft Boat's return on equity of 6.55% beat Malibu Boats' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Malibu Boats-10.90% 2.39% 1.69%
MasterCraft Boat -1.08%6.55%3.78%

In the previous week, MasterCraft Boat had 5 more articles in the media than Malibu Boats. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for MasterCraft Boat and 2 mentions for Malibu Boats. MasterCraft Boat's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Malibu Boats' score of 0.30 indicating that MasterCraft Boat is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Malibu Boats
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
MasterCraft Boat
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

MasterCraft Boat beats Malibu Boats on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MBUU vs. The Competition

MetricMalibu BoatsShip & boat building & repairing IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$671.89M$10.01B$8.39B$8.94B
Dividend YieldN/A3.72%2.89%4.04%
P/E RatioN/A6.1111.1013.30
Price / Sales0.840.796.6779.32
Price / Cash4.439.1730.6835.97
Price / Book1.361.515.964.79
Net Income-$55.91M$493.13M$274.28M$225.00M
7 Day Performance4.17%2.22%1.55%1.52%
1 Month Performance-5.08%11.52%3.00%4.88%
1 Year Performance-32.01%-21.08%10.49%20.12%

Malibu Boats Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MBUU
Malibu Boats
3.1419 of 5 stars
$35.50
-0.3%
$42.71
+20.3%
-30.4%$671.89M$829.03M0.002,250
MCFT
MasterCraft Boat
3.3719 of 5 stars
$17.93
+0.8%
$20.75
+15.7%
-10.4%$301.15M$337.64M-77.961,060
RVSN
Rail Vision
0.2943 of 5 stars
$1.63
+3.1%
N/A-34.3%$32.77M$903,000.00-0.3660Gap Down
VEEE
Twin Vee Powercats
0.4926 of 5 stars
$0.39
-14.2%
N/A-63.7%$3.71M$20.95M-0.37120Positive News
Gap Down
FRZA
Forza X1
N/A$0.20
+33.1%
N/A-59.1%$3.15M$40,000.00-0.515Gap Up
VMAR
Vision Marine Technologies
3.7302 of 5 stars
$1.62
-24.5%
$30.00
+1,747.3%
-84.1%$1.27M$3.79M-0.0114Earnings Report
Gap Down
MPX
Marine Products
2.4952 of 5 stars
$8.77
-0.8%
$8.00
-8.8%
-13.4%$304.43M$259.61M16.55940Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
GD
General Dynamics
4.8627 of 5 stars
$263.50
+1.6%
$308.18
+17.0%
+6.3%$72.45B$46.05B20.07106,500Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
HII
Huntington Ingalls Industries
4.6465 of 5 stars
$195.02
+2.6%
$228.89
+17.4%
-22.1%$7.63B$11.71B11.0144,000Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
PLTK
Playtika
3.9175 of 5 stars
$6.83
+0.9%
$9.00
+31.8%
-4.1%$2.55B$2.54B11.783,600
CENT
Central Garden & Pet
3.0752 of 5 stars
$36.38
+3.5%
$46.75
+28.5%
-3.9%$2.39B$3.20B22.486,450Short Interest ↑
News Coverage

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This page (NASDAQ:MBUU) was last updated on 1/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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