BYD vs. BYD.UN, PLC, FOOD, MG, CCL.B, GIL, CTC.A, LNR, DOO, and ATZ
Should you be buying Boyd Group Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Boyd Group Services include Boyd Group Income Fund (BYD.UN), Park Lawn (PLC), Goodfood Market (FOOD), Magna International (MG), CCL Industries (CCL.B), Gildan Activewear (GIL), Canadian Tire (CTC.A), Linamar (LNR), BRP (DOO), and Aritzia (ATZ). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Boyd Group Services (TSE:BYD) and Boyd Group Income Fund (TSE:BYD.UN) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and profitability.
Boyd Group Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Boyd Group Income Fund pays an annual dividend of C$0.54 per share. Boyd Group Services pays out 12.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Boyd Group Income Fund pays out 14.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Boyd Group Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Boyd Group Services has a net margin of 2.46% compared to Boyd Group Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Boyd Group Services' return on equity of 9.30% beat Boyd Group Income Fund's return on equity.
52.4% of Boyd Group Services shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Boyd Group Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Boyd Group Services had 1 more articles in the media than Boyd Group Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Boyd Group Services and 0 mentions for Boyd Group Income Fund. Boyd Group Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Boyd Group Services' score of -0.99 indicating that Boyd Group Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Boyd Group Income Fund received 179 more outperform votes than Boyd Group Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.32% of users gave Boyd Group Income Fund an outperform vote while only 54.68% of users gave Boyd Group Services an outperform vote.
Boyd Group Services currently has a consensus price target of C$301.85, indicating a potential upside of 32.30%.
Boyd Group Income Fund has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Boyd Group Services. Boyd Group Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boyd Group Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Boyd Group Services beats Boyd Group Income Fund on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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