Marine Products (NYSE:MPX) and Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ:PTON) Head-To-Head Comparison

Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ:PTON) and Marine Products (NYSE:MPX) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and institutional ownership.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Peloton Interactive and Marine Products”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Peloton Interactive	$2.49 billion	1.20	-$118.90 million	($0.28)	-25.50
Marine Products	$227.67 million	1.27	$17.85 million	$0.37	22.31

Marine Products has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Peloton Interactive. Peloton Interactive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marine Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Peloton Interactive and Marine Products, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Peloton Interactive	1	7	8	0	2.44
Marine Products	1	0	0	0	1.00

Peloton Interactive presently has a consensus price target of $9.95, indicating a potential upside of 39.30%. Given Peloton Interactive’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Peloton Interactive is more favorable than Marine Products.

Profitability

This table compares Peloton Interactive and Marine Products’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Peloton Interactive	-4.24%	N/A	-4.92%
Marine Products	6.26%	10.98%	7.98%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

77.0% of Peloton Interactive shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.9% of Marine Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Peloton Interactive shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 75.2% of Marine Products shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility & Risk

Peloton Interactive has a beta of 2.33, indicating that its share price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marine Products has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Marine Products beats Peloton Interactive on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Peloton Interactive

Peloton Interactive, Inc. operates interactive fitness platform in North America and internationally. The company offers connected fitness products with touchscreen that streams live and on-demand classes under the Peloton Bike, Peloton Bike+, Peloton Tread, Peloton Tread+, Peloton Guide, and Peloton Row names. The company markets and sells its interactive fitness products directly through its retail showrooms and at onepeloton.com. Peloton Interactive, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

About Marine Products

Marine Products Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells recreational fiberglass powerboats for the sport boat and sport fishing boat markets worldwide. The company offers Chaparral sterndrive pleasure boats, including SSi Sport Boats, SSX Sport Boats, and the Surf Series; Chaparral outboard pleasure boats, which include OSX Luxury Sportboats and SSi outboard models; and Robalo outboard sport fishing boats. It also provides center and dual consoles, and Cayman Bay Boats under the Robalo brand name. The company sells its products to a network of domestic and international independent authorized dealers. Marine Products Corporation was founded in 1965 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Marine Products Corporation operates as a subsidiary of LOR, Inc.