MCS vs. LINC, NRDY, MPX, EEX, VTRU, JOUT, CVEO, LIND, SNBR, and WOW
Should you be buying Marcus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marcus include Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Nerdy (NRDY), Marine Products (MPX), Emerald (EEX), Vitru (VTRU), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), Civeo (CVEO), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Sleep Number (SNBR), and WideOpenWest (WOW). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) and Marcus (NYSE:MCS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.6% of Marcus shares are held by institutional investors. 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Marcus shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lincoln Educational Services pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Marcus pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Lincoln Educational Services pays out 9.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Marcus pays out 116.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Marcus has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Marcus is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Lincoln Educational Services presently has a consensus target price of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 22.13%. Marcus has a consensus target price of $19.67, indicating a potential upside of 80.43%. Given Lincoln Educational Services' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Marcus is more favorable than Lincoln Educational Services.
Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marcus has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lincoln Educational Services had 5 more articles in the media than Marcus. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services and 1 mentions for Marcus. Lincoln Educational Services' average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat Marcus' score of 1.04 indicating that Marcus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lincoln Educational Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Marcus. Lincoln Educational Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marcus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.57% compared to Lincoln Educational Services' net margin of 1.73%. Marcus' return on equity of 9.79% beat Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity.
Marcus received 156 more outperform votes than Lincoln Educational Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.03% of users gave Marcus an outperform vote while only 63.19% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services and Marcus tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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