McBride (MCB) Competitors

DFS Furniture (LON:DFS) and McBride (LON:MCB) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.

Is DFS or MCB a better dividend stock?

DFS Furniture pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. McBride pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. DFS Furniture pays out -214.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. McBride pays out 5.1% 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. DFS Furniture is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts recommend DFS or MCB?

DFS Furniture presently has a consensus price target of GBX 185, suggesting a potential upside of 27.59%. Given DFS Furniture's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe DFS Furniture is more favorable than McBride.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DFS Furniture	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
McBride	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer DFS or MCB?

McBride received 167 more outperform votes than DFS Furniture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.18% of users gave McBride an outperform vote while only 72.84% of users gave DFS Furniture an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
DFS Furniture	Outperform Votes 303 72.84%	Underperform Votes 113 27.16%
McBride	Outperform Votes 470 77.18%	Underperform Votes 139 22.82%

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, DFS or MCB?

McBride has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DFS Furniture. DFS Furniture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McBride, 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
DFS Furniture	£964.48M	0.35	-£4.30M	-£1.87	-77.64
McBride	£930.83M	0.27	£33.16M	£19.57	7.36

Does the media prefer DFS or MCB?

In the previous week, McBride had 15 more articles in the media than DFS Furniture. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for McBride and 1 mentions for DFS Furniture. McBride's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat DFS Furniture's score of 0.00 indicating that McBride is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
DFS Furniture	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
McBride	5 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	10 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of DFS or MCB?

81.1% of DFS Furniture shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.7% of McBride shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.7% of DFS Furniture shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of McBride shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more risk and volatility, DFS or MCB?

DFS Furniture has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McBride has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is DFS or MCB more profitable?

McBride has a net margin of 3.56% compared to DFS Furniture's net margin of -0.45%. McBride's return on equity of 62.24% beat DFS Furniture's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DFS Furniture	-0.45%	-1.90%	3.00%
McBride	3.56%	62.24%	8.54%

Summary

DFS Furniture and McBride tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.