RGR vs. MPX, JOUT, JAKK, HAS, MAT, BC, PII, SWBI, NPK, and POWW
Should you be buying Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. include Marine Products (MPX), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Hasbro (HAS), Mattel (MAT), Brunswick (BC), Polaris (PII), Smith & Wesson Brands (SWBI), National Presto Industries (NPK), and AMMO (POWW).
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. vs.
Marine Products (NYSE:MPX) and Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE:RGR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
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 58.70% of users gave Marine Products an outperform vote.
Marine Products has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Marine Products currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential downside of 16.32%. Given Marine Products' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Marine Products is more favorable than Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc..
Marine Products pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Marine Products pays out 105.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. pays out 25.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
13.9% of Marine Products shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.0% of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors. 75.7% of Marine Products shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Marine Products has a net margin of 7.32% compared to Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s net margin of 5.83%. Marine Products' return on equity of 13.55% beat Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s return on equity.
In the previous week, Marine Products and Marine Products both had 2 articles in the media. Marine Products' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s score of -0.52 indicating that Marine Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. beats Marine Products on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:RGR) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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