MasterCraft Boat (MCFT) Competitors

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

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of MBUU or MCFT?

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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate MBUU or MCFT?

Malibu Boats currently has a consensus target price of $42.83, indicating a potential upside of 24.46%. MasterCraft Boat has a consensus target price of $20.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.62%. Given Malibu Boats' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research 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

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, MBUU or MCFT?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Malibu Boats	$829.03M	0.82	-$55.91M	-$4.35	-7.91
MasterCraft Boat	$366.59M	0.82	$7.80M	-$0.40	-45.11

Which has more volatility & risk, MBUU or MCFT?

Malibu Boats has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MasterCraft Boat has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer MBUU or MCFT?

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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Malibu Boats	Outperform Votes 449 64.51%	Underperform Votes 247 35.49%
MasterCraft Boat	Outperform Votes 370 67.03%	Underperform Votes 182 32.97%

Is MBUU or MCFT more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Malibu Boats	-12.09%	1.04%	0.73%
MasterCraft Boat	-2.29%	3.74%	2.25%

Does the media prefer MBUU or MCFT?

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 1.06 beat Malibu Boats' score of 0.73 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	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
MasterCraft Boat	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

MasterCraft Boat beats Malibu Boats on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.