Malibu Boats screens cheap on a growth-adjusted basis with meaningful analyst-implied upside, but a confirmed technical downtrend, an extreme put/call ratio, and an inconsistent earnings record keep the engine's quality-floor exit signal active.
Thesis pillars
- Cheap Growth Adjusted Valuation→Stable
- Confirmed Technical Downtrend↓Deteriorating
- Extreme Put Call Positioning↑Improving
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Malibu Boats, Inc. (MBUU) Stock Analysis
Falling Knife setup · Catalyst-Driven edge
Consumer Cyclical · Recreational Vehicles
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $21.58: Quality below floor (3.6 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 6.1/10 and A.R:R 6.3:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum; Below long-term trend.
Malibu Boats designs and makes recreational powerboats under eight brands: Malibu, Axis, Pursuit, Maverick, Cobia, Pathfinder, Hewes and Cobalt, and sells them through over 325 dealer locations. Its top ten dealers represented 42.8% of fiscal 2025 net sales, with OneWater... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $21.58: Quality below floor (3.6 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 6.1/10 and A.R:R 6.3:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: Death cross, below all MAs, RSI 25, MACD bearish. Score 6.1/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/9 gates (favorable risk/reward ratio, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 16d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and death cross (50MA < 200MA). Suitability: aggressive.
About Malibu Boats, Inc.
About Malibu Boats, Inc.
Dealerships under common control of OneWater Marine accounted for approximately 24.7% of Malibu Boats' consolidated net sales in fiscal 2025, up from 17.2% in fiscal 2023, while the top ten dealers represented 42.8%. The company sells eight brands (Malibu, Axis, Pursuit, Maverick, Cobia, Pathfinder, Hewes and Cobalt) through over 325 dealer locations worldwide as of June 30, 2025, and has about 123 product development and engineering professionals.
Malibu Boats reports three segments: Malibu, Saltwater Fishing and Cobalt. The company builds fiberglass performance sport boats, sterndrive boats and outboard fishing boats, and says it serves an addressable market of nearly $12.6 billion within $15.5 billion of U.S. new powerboat retail sales in calendar 2024. Dealer agreements run one to three years, mostly one year, and dealers can generally end them on 60 days' notice. Rebates, discounts and free flooring incentives encourage offseason orders, and around 80% of North American shipments in fiscal 2025 used third-party floor plan financing, backed by repurchase agreements; the company repurchased 22 units, 19 of them tied to M&T Bank after the Tommy's Boats bankruptcy. Production spans eight facilities in four U.S. states and Australia, and vertical integration covers Monsoon engines, trailers, towers and wiring harnesses.
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Supply chain concentration in engines stands out. The 10-K says engines, boat windshields, certain electrical components and gel coats come from a sole supplier or a limited number of suppliers. Engines come from General Motors under an agreement through model year 2026, outboard engines from Yamaha through June 30, 2027, and inboard engines from Volvo. A supplier advised in fiscal 2025 that fewer engines would arrive than expected in the second half, though the effect was not material, and a 2020 UAW strike at General Motors cost the company $2.6 million to secure replacement engines.
See also: Consumer Cyclical · Recreational Vehicles
From Malibu Boats, Inc.'s most recent 10-K filing, extracted October 11, 2026.
Recent developments
updated 2026-10-13Recent Developments — Malibu Boats, Inc.
Latest news
- NEWS Malibu Boats Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript — benzinga Aug 27, 2026 positive
- NEWS 12 Consumer Discretionary Stocks Moving In Thursday's Pre-Market Session — benzinga Aug 27, 2026 neutral
- NEWS Malibu Boats Sees FY2027 Sales $1.080B-$1.120B vs $1.081B Est — benzinga Aug 27, 2026 neutral
- NEWS Malibu Boats Q4 Adj. EPS $0.92 Beats $0.76 Estimate, Sales $295.537M Beat $263.889M Estimate — benzinga Aug 27, 2026 positive
- NEWS Truist Securities Maintains Hold on Malibu Boats, Raises Price Target to $34 — benzinga Jul 6, 2026 positive
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- LOWCustomerOneWater Marine dealers25%10-K Item 1: 'Sales to our dealers under common control of OneWater Marine, Inc. represented approximately 24.7%, 23.7% and 17.2% of consolidated net sales in fiscal years 2025, 2024 and 2023'
- MEDIUMCustomertop ten dealers43%10-K Item 1: 'Our top ten dealers represented 42.8%, 40.4% and 41.1%, of our net sales for fiscal year 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.'
- HIGHSupplierengines from a sole supplier or limited number of suppliers10-K Item 1A: 'including engines, boat windshields, certain electrical components and gel coats are available from a sole supplier or a limited number of suppliers'
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Rating Breakdown
2 floor-breakers·2 ceiling hits
Price action weak — below key moving averages, no momentum carry. Needs a base before trend-continuation setups apply.static
Quality below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $21.58: Quality below floor (3.6 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 6.1/10 and A.R:R 6.3:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: Death cross, below all MAs, RSI 25, MACD bearish. Prior stop was $20.58. Score 6.1/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $30.56 (+41.6% upside). Prior stop was $20.58. Stop-loss: $20.58.
Concentration risk — Supplier: engines from a sole supplier or limited number of suppliers; Quality below floor (3.6 < 4.0).
Malibu Boats, Inc. trades at a P/E of 240.4 (forward 7.0). TrendMatrix value score: 9.2/10. Verdict: Sell.
16 analysts cover MBUU with a consensus score of 3.8/5. Average price target: $35.
What does Malibu Boats, Inc. do?Malibu Boats designs and makes recreational powerboats under eight brands: Malibu, Axis, Pursuit, Maverick, Cobia,...
Malibu Boats designs and makes recreational powerboats under eight brands: Malibu, Axis, Pursuit, Maverick, Cobia, Pathfinder, Hewes and Cobalt, and sells them through over 325 dealer locations. Its top ten dealers represented 42.8% of fiscal 2025 net sales, with OneWater Marine's dealerships at approximately 24.7%. It runs eight manufacturing facilities in four U.S. states and Australia and builds its own Monsoon engines, trailers and towers.