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.
Hydro One (TSE:H) and Restaurant Brands International (TSE:QSR) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
22.1% of Hydro One shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.6% of Restaurant Brands International shares are held by institutional investors. 47.1% of Hydro One shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Restaurant Brands International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hydro One currently has a consensus target price of C$43.25, indicating a potential downside of 1.73%. Restaurant Brands International has a consensus target price of C$90.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.15%. Given Restaurant Brands International's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Restaurant Brands International is more favorable than Hydro One.
Restaurant Brands International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hydro One. 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.
Hydro One has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Restaurant Brands International has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hydro One pays an annual dividend of C$1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Restaurant Brands International pays an annual dividend of C$3.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Hydro One pays out 67.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Restaurant Brands International pays out 57.1% 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. Restaurant Brands International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hydro One received 259 more outperform votes than Restaurant Brands International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.08% of users gave Hydro One an outperform vote while only 61.79% of users gave Restaurant Brands International an outperform vote.
Restaurant Brands International has a net margin of 16.99% compared to Hydro One's net margin of 13.85%. Restaurant Brands International's return on equity of 37.74% beat Hydro One's return on equity.
In the previous week, Restaurant Brands International had 3 more articles in the media than Hydro One. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Restaurant Brands International and 2 mentions for Hydro One. Hydro One's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat Restaurant Brands International's score of -0.46 indicating that Hydro One is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Restaurant Brands International beats Hydro One on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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