MTY Food Group (MTY) Competitors

MTY Food Group (TSE:MTY) and Boyd Group Services (TSE:BYD) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of MTY or BYD?

19.0% of MTY Food Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.6% of Boyd Group Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.5% of MTY Food Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Boyd Group Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer MTY or BYD?

MTY Food Group presently has a consensus target price of C$52.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.34%. Boyd Group Services has a consensus target price of C$271.36, suggesting a potential upside of 28.90%. Given Boyd Group Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Boyd Group Services is more favorable than MTY Food Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MTY Food Group	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Boyd Group Services	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.10

Does the MarketBeat Community favor MTY or BYD?

MTY Food Group received 179 more outperform votes than Boyd Group Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.44% of users gave MTY Food Group an outperform vote while only 53.39% of users gave Boyd Group Services an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
MTY Food Group	Outperform Votes 305 57.44%	Underperform Votes 226 42.56%
Boyd Group Services	Outperform Votes 126 53.39%	Underperform Votes 110 46.61%

Is MTY or BYD a better dividend stock?

MTY Food Group pays an annual dividend of C$1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Boyd Group Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. MTY Food Group pays out 28.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Boyd Group Services pays out 22.1% 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.

Which has better valuation & earnings, MTY or BYD?

MTY Food Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Boyd Group Services. MTY Food Group 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
MTY Food Group	C$1.13B	0.89	C$93.69M	C$4.00	10.79
Boyd Group Services	C$2.16B	1.48	C$29.07M	C$2.71	77.54

Does the media refer more to MTY or BYD?

In the previous week, Boyd Group Services had 54 more articles in the media than MTY Food Group. MarketBeat recorded 55 mentions for Boyd Group Services and 1 mentions for MTY Food Group. MTY Food Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Boyd Group Services' score of -0.20 indicating that MTY Food Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
MTY Food Group	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Boyd Group Services	9 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	3 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Is MTY or BYD more profitable?

MTY Food Group has a net margin of 8.30% compared to Boyd Group Services' net margin of 1.35%. MTY Food Group's return on equity of 11.66% beat Boyd Group Services' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MTY Food Group	8.30%	11.66%	4.18%
Boyd Group Services	1.35%	4.93%	3.95%

Which has more risk and volatility, MTY or BYD?

MTY Food Group has a beta of 1.95, indicating that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boyd Group Services has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

MTY Food Group beats Boyd Group Services on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.