Marine Products Corporation MPX

Competitive advantage analysis · consumer-cyclical

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
78/100
Strong

About Marine Products Corporation

Marine Products Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells recreational fiberglass powerboats for the sport boat and sport fishing boat markets in the United States. 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 Sportboats; and Robalo outboard sport fishing boats. It also provides center and … Full MPX analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.85), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
  • ROIC Sustainably Above Peers ROIC at 84.6th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.

The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.

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Pricing Power

Strong
79

Where MPX ranks in Recreational Vehicles

Marine Products Corporation ranks #3 of 16 scored companies in Recreational Vehicles by moat score — the top 19%. The widest moat in the group is LCI Industries (LCII) at 80/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near MPX in Recreational Vehicles
# Company Moat score Rating
1 LCI Industries LCII 80/100 Strong
2 Harley-Davidson, Inc. HOG 80/100 Strong
3 Marine Products Corporation MPX 78/100 Strong
4 Massimo Group MAMO 73/100 Moderate
5 Thor Industries, Inc. THO 66/100 Moderate
6 Winnebago Industries, Inc. WGO 53/100 Moderate
7 Brunswick Corporation BC 48/100 Developing
8 Polaris Inc. PII 44/100 Developing
9 Malibu Boats, Inc. MBUU 40/100 Developing

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How MPX scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 79 · 20% of the moat score

Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.

Cost Advantage

Score 78 · 15% of the moat score

A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.

Customer Stickiness

Score 70 · 15% of the moat score

Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.

Capital Efficiency

Score 82 · 18% of the moat score

Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.

Resilience

Score 90 · 17% of the moat score

Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.

Scale & Market Position

Score 70 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding MPX's moat

What is Marine Products Corporation's moat score?

Marine Products Corporation (MPX) scores 78 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #3 of 16 scored companies in Recreational Vehicles, the top 19%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 15 companies in Recreational Vehicles. Its strongest defense is Resilience (90/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (70/100).

How does Marine Products Corporation compare with other Recreational Vehicles companies?

Marine Products Corporation ranks #3 of 16 scored companies in Recreational Vehicles by moat score. The widest moat in Recreational Vehicles is LCI Industries (LCII) at 80/100. The companies ranked closest are Harley-Davidson, Inc. (HOG) at 80 just above it and Massimo Group (MAMO) at 73 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 15 companies in Recreational Vehicles. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Marine Products Corporation scored with the Corporate Default template?

Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.

Which competitive defenses are measured for Marine Products Corporation?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and MPX scores: Pricing Power (79), Cost Advantage (78), Customer Stickiness (70), Capital Efficiency (82), Resilience (90), Scale & Market Position (70). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.

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