Monro Muffler Brake (NASDAQ:MNRO) and bpost (OTCMKTS:BPOSY) Critical Survey

bpost (OTCMKTS:BPOSY) and Monro Muffler Brake (NASDAQ:MNRO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.

Profitability

This table compares bpost and Monro Muffler Brake’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
bpost	-6.15%	4.71%	0.77%
Monro Muffler Brake	-1.59%	2.49%	0.95%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for bpost and Monro Muffler Brake, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
bpost	0	0	0	0	0.00
Monro Muffler Brake	0	1	2	0	2.67

Monro Muffler Brake has a consensus target price of $17.33, indicating a potential downside of 4.71%. Given Monro Muffler Brake’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Monro Muffler Brake is more favorable than bpost.

Volatility & Risk

bpost has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monro Muffler Brake has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares bpost and Monro Muffler Brake”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
bpost	$4.68 billion	0.10	-$221.94 million	($1.53)	-1.54
Monro Muffler Brake	$1.20 billion	0.46	-$5.18 million	($0.67)	-27.15

Monro Muffler Brake has lower revenue, but higher earnings than bpost. Monro Muffler Brake is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than bpost, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Monro Muffler Brake beats bpost on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About bpost

bpost NV/SA, together with its subsidiaries, provides mail and parcel services to individuals, businesses, and public institutions in Belgium, rest of Europe, the United States, and internationally. It operates through Belgium, E-Logistics Eurasia, and E-Logistics North America segments. The company offers collection, transport, sorting, and distribution of addressed and non-addressed mail, printed documents, newspapers, periodicals, and parcels, as well as banking and financial products, e-commerce logistics, express delivery, and related services. It also provides transactional mails, advertising mails, press, domestic and international parcels, and logistic solutions; e-commerce fulfilment, including warehousing and handling of goods; e-commerce cross-border services, including custom duties services; operational back-office services, including call center, payment and financial, fraud and tax, administrative and document management services; and proximity and convenience services, such as the access to the network and over-the-counter service for different partners and sale of self-produced goods, as well as retail products and goods of partners, including bpost bank products; repair of electronics; and import services. The company was founded in 1830 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

About Monro Muffler Brake

Monro, Inc. provides automotive undercar repair, and tire sales and services in the United States. It offers replacement tires and tire related services, automotive undercar repair services, and routine maintenance services primarily to passenger cars, light trucks, and vans. The company also provides other products and services for brakes; mufflers and exhaust systems; and steering, drive train, suspension, and wheel alignment. In addition, it operates stores under the brand names of Monro Auto Service and Tire Centers, Tire Choice Auto Service Centers, Mr. Tire Auto Service Centers, Car-X Tire & Auto, Tire Warehouse Tires for Less, Ken Towery's Tire & Auto Care, Mountain View Tire & Auto Service, and Tire Barn Warehouse. The company was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Rochester, New York.