Marine Products Co. (NYSE:MPX) Declares $0.14 Quarterly Dividend

Marine Products Co. (NYSE:MPX) declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 24th, Zacks reports. Investors of record on Monday, November 11th will be given a dividend of 0.14 per share on Tuesday, December 10th. This represents a $0.56 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.82%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, November 8th.

Marine Products has raised its dividend payment by an average of 15.9% per year over the last three years. Marine Products has a dividend payout ratio of 112.0% indicating that the company cannot currently cover its dividend with earnings alone and is relying on its balance sheet to cover its dividend payments. Research analysts expect Marine Products to earn $0.50 per share next year, which means the company may not be able to cover its $0.56 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 112.0%.

Marine Products Price Performance

Shares of MPX stock opened at $9.62 on Friday. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $9.49 and its 200 day simple moving average is $10.06. Marine Products has a one year low of $8.86 and a one year high of $12.47. The firm has a market cap of $334.01 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.18 and a beta of 1.23.

Marine Products (NYSE:MPX) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 25th. The company reported $0.14 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.14. The firm had revenue of $69.55 million for the quarter. Marine Products had a net margin of 9.04% and a return on equity of 17.86%. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.42 earnings per share. On average, research analysts anticipate that Marine Products will post 0.4 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, DA Davidson cut their price objective on Marine Products from $11.00 to $8.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, August 12th.

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.