Marine Products Corp. (MPX) Receives Consensus Recommendation of “Hold” from Brokerages - Watch List News
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Shares of Marine Products Corp. (NYSE:MPX) have earned a consensus broker rating score of 2.50 (Hold) from the two analysts that provide coverage for the company, Zacks Investment Research reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold recommendation and one has assigned a buy recommendation to the company.
Brokers have set a one year consensus price objective of $22.75 for the company and are anticipating that the company will post $0.19 earnings per share for the current quarter, according to Zacks. Zacks has also assigned Marine Products an industry rank of 34 out of 257 based on the ratings given to related companies.
Several equities analysts have recently issued reports on the company. B. Riley lifted their price target on Marine Products from $17.00 to $19.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 25th. Zacks Investment Research raised Marine Products from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $22.00 price target for the company in a research report on Saturday, July 28th.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of MPX. Macquarie Group Ltd. raised its position in shares of Marine Products by 508.3% in the 2nd quarter. Macquarie Group Ltd. now owns 7,300 shares of the company’s stock worth $130,000 after purchasing an additional 6,100 shares during the last quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Marine Products in the 2nd quarter worth about $203,000. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC raised its position in Marine Products by 82.8% in the 3rd quarter. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC now owns 11,572 shares of the company’s stock worth $265,000 after buying an additional 5,243 shares during the last quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN raised its position in Marine Products by 41.0% in the 3rd quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 17,595 shares of the company’s stock worth $403,000 after buying an additional 5,118 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. raised its position in Marine Products by 42.8% in the 1st quarter. Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. now owns 42,020 shares of the company’s stock worth $589,000 after buying an additional 12,604 shares during the last quarter. 14.41% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Shares of MPX traded down $1.13 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $21.04. The company had a trading volume of 41,143 shares, compared to its average volume of 40,958. The firm has a market cap of $741.38 million, a PE ratio of 35.07 and a beta of 0.47. Marine Products has a 52-week low of $12.00 and a 52-week high of $24.82.
Marine Products (NYSE:MPX) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October 24th. The company reported $0.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.03. The firm had revenue of $72.01 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $67.66 million. Marine Products had a return on equity of 38.58% and a net margin of 8.97%. As a group, equities analysts anticipate that Marine Products will post 0.88 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, December 10th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 9th will be given a $0.10 dividend. This represents a $0.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.90%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 8th. Marine Products’s dividend payout ratio is presently 66.67%.
Hublot celebrates its ongoing partnership with the FIFA World Cup this year with the unveiling of the Big Bang Referee 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. Marking the brand’s first foray into the world of smart watches, Hublot puts all the action of soccer’s biggest tournament right on your wrist.
The Big Bang’s architecture provides a sturdy structure to house the digital intelligence powering the new wristwatch, and its modular design plays right into the theme – as well as the stage – for its debut. As the name suggests, the smart watch has been designed firstly with the FIFA World Cup referees in mind, but it doesn’t stop there. The Big Bang Referee has been designed to take Hublot well and truly into the smart watch arena.
Hublot was the first luxury watch manufacturer to embrace the world of soccer, sponsoring the Swiss national team in 2006 and then going on to keep time for the UEFA Euro, Champions League, Europa League, FIFA Confederations Cups, World Cup South Africa, and World Cup Brazil. Now, again in 2018, Hublot carries the responsibility of “FIFA Official Timekeeper” and “FIFA Official Watch”, for the World Cup that kicked off in Russia on the 14th of June.
Hublot’s involvement in soccer was the brainchild of CEO (and Big Bang creator) Jean-Claude Biver, who saw an opportunity to “go where the potential customers are”. The brand known for ‘fusion’ timepieces has a growing community of fans all over the world and so the Big Bang Referee 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia makes its debut not as just another smart watch but as the first connected football watch.
The premise to develop a smart watch actually came from Hublot’s association with soccer – FIFA requested a wristwatch capable of connecting referees (directly) to goal-line technology – an electronic video assistance system which follows the path of the ball and determines for certain whether it crosses a goal-line entirely or not. The wristwatches will also assist referees to manage play periods, changes and extra time (testing was carried out discreetly during last year’s Confederations Cup and FIFA Club World Cup).
At Baselworld, the Big Bang Referees went into countdown mode to the kick-off of the World Cup – where they will provide a unique experience on the wrist by communicating on-the-pitch action in real time. But that’s just the beginning for the new connected Hublot. Post-tournament, the Big Bang Referee will continue to benefit from the Android living ecosystem – meaning thousands of downloadable applications are available in addition to its competition functions. The wristwatch is compatible with all phones using Android 4.4 and above or iOS 9 and above.
Having borne the first Hublot manufacture movement, the Big Bang was the logical choice to launch Hublot into the digital world. In terms of the outer case and switchable straps (which will interchange with the standard Big Bang Unico), much of the iconic DNA is preserved all be it in a larger wristwatch – the case, cut from polished and satin-finished titanium, measures 49mm. The bezel (also titanium) is held in place with the six signature H-shaped screws, and the crown of course sits within a Kevlar insert.
However, the 35.4mm porthole is occupied by a 400 x 400 pixels/ 287ppi AMOLED touchscreen, supported by a group of sensors – accelerometer, gyroscope, tilt detector, microphone, vibration, haptic motor, and GPS. The ‘movement’ powered by INTEL® employs Wear OS by Google technology developed by LVMH (Hublot’s parent company). The battery will give you around a day’s worth of power, with charging a simple process of placing the wristwatch on a contact charger (for approximately two hours). Water resistance is to 5 ATM (5 bar/ 50m/ 165ft). If that all sounds impressive – wait for the icing on the cake.
The Big Bang Referee has been designed to be much more than a smart referee’s aid – it’s meant to enhance your whole match experience. A specially developed app is loaded with all 32 competing teams – you can select any you’re interested in following. It will alert you to matches 15 minutes before kick-off, player changes, yellow and red cards, and goals – vibrating and displaying GOAL instantly every time one is scored. During matches, the dial shows statistics including score, names of goal-scorers, player substitutions, number of cards, and match time.
The analogue mode dial bears a great likeness to the automatic Big Bangs but for the FIFA World Cup you can choose from the series of “fan” dials in the colours of each participating nation. Two straps will be provided with the wristwatch – a black lined natural rubber strap and a sponge cuff strap (referee-style) sporting the 2018 FIFA World Cup emblem. Additional straps in national colours with flags will also be available – easy to change over with Hublot’s “One Click” strap system. In short – everything has been thought of to make the perfect fan’s kit.
The debut of Hublot’s Big Bang Referee 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia is very much intertwined with the international football tournament it will officially keep time for, and Hublot has been quite creative in making the most of the opportunity – the whole concept is a novel way to showcase the connected watch’s full potential.
After the World Cup, Hublot is planning to release a new selection of dials for the wristwatch and continue going forward with smart watches. But only 2018 pieces will be sold to the public of the initial edition – so if you can get your hands on one you’ll be owning not just a piece of football memorabilia but of watchmaking history. The Big Bang Referee 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia will be priced at $6,700. Be quick though, as global allocations are limited – contact us at Watches of Switzerland for more information regarding possibilities for purchase.
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Wild Rose lost the first Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) Regional girls’ softball game at home on May 27 to Port Edwards 6-5.
On May 22, the Westfield boys’ baseball team traveled to Nekoosa to compete in a South Central Conference game. The Pioneers fell to the Papermakers in seven innings, 6-2.
The Wild Rose Wildcats finished up their regular baseball season with a 17-7 loss to the Rosholt Hornets at home on May 28.
The Wautoma Hornet girls’ softball team defeated the Ripon Tigers 10-4 on May 24 in the first round of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) regional softball tournament.
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Do not leave anything default. Change your root password with this command after login to your ssh console.
Configure anything with new user account beside root. It is bad practice if you configure or make change always using your root login.
Now our newuser is in sudo group, you can know configure and make changes to your server using this account.
I have enough experience with leaving servers connected to the Internet to know that any IP address on the Internet will be found and scanned by hackers. They will often try to use a brute-force SSH attack to gain the password to the server. Fail2ban will block these attacks from happening.
While we are on the subject of editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config, this is also where you would disable root SSH access. Find the line PermitRootLogin yes and change it to say PermitRootLogin no, save the file and restart SSH
UFW is an easy to use Linux firewall. This will secure unused ports on your server. First, install it:
We can setup our firewall rules before actually activating the firewall. I always disable all ports by default and then add the ports I will need later.
Make sure to always allow your SSH port first, it is not so fun if we cannot enter our VPS after we enable ufw.
And I want to allow some outgoing ports. Those include ports which the server might need for things like DNS and git. If you do not unblock certain outgoing ports then apt-get updates or installs might not work for example.
Things seem to be working fine so far, but remember, if you ever come across a weird issue where some program is not working or having trouble connecting to the Internet, it might be a port that needs to be enabled in your firewall.