H vs. QSR, BYD, MTY, CMG, TH, CHH, MGM, MAR, JAX, and PPE
Should you be buying Hydro One stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hydro One include Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Boyd Group Services (BYD), MTY Food Group (MTY), Computer Modelling Group (CMG), Theratechnologies (TH), CENTRIC HEALTH (CHH), Maple Gold Mines (MGM), Mount Logan Capital (MAR), Jaxon Mining (JAX), and Pacific Paradym Energy (PPE). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Hydro One vs. Its Competitors
Restaurant Brands International (TSE:QSR) and Hydro One (TSE:H) are both large-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Restaurant Brands International has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hydro One has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hydro One had 8 more articles in the media than Restaurant Brands International. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Hydro One and 0 mentions for Restaurant Brands International. Restaurant Brands International's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Hydro One's score of 0.21 indicating that Restaurant Brands International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hydro One received 258 more outperform votes than Restaurant Brands International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.46% of users gave Hydro One an outperform vote while only 61.66% of users gave Restaurant Brands International an outperform vote.
88.6% of Restaurant Brands International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.1% of Hydro One shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Restaurant Brands International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 47.1% of Hydro One shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Restaurant Brands International pays an annual dividend of C$3.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Hydro One pays an annual dividend of C$1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Restaurant Brands International pays out 63.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hydro One pays out 66.4% 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. Restaurant Brands International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hydro One has a consensus target price of C$49.67, indicating a potential upside of 1.11%. Given Hydro One's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hydro One is more favorable than Restaurant Brands International.
Restaurant Brands International has a net margin of 16.02% compared to Hydro One's net margin of 13.59%. Restaurant Brands International's return on equity of 41.85% beat Hydro One's return on equity.
Hydro One has higher revenue and earnings than Restaurant Brands International. Restaurant Brands International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hydro One, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Restaurant Brands International beats Hydro One on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:H) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
