
TSE:BYD
This summary was created by AI, based on 7 opinions in the last 12 months.
Boyd Group Services Inc. (BYD-T) is facing a challenging environment as it navigates the collision repair market. Experts have noted concerns about the impact of older vehicles being written off by insurance companies, potentially leading to reduced repair opportunities. While there are opinions suggesting that the industry may have bottomed out, Boyd's stock has experienced significant volatility, with a nearly 50% drop over recent months. Some reviews highlight the company's solid same-store sales growth and expanding margins, but caution that labor-cost challenges persist. Analysts have mixed views on the company's future performance, indicating a gap between market expectations and analyst projections, suggesting a cautious approach moving forward.
Long owned this. There are two trends that could hurt Boyd: driverless cars that would eliminate car crashes (but that could be 15 years away), and new cars need new tech like lasers. Their advantage: insurance companies prefer one company with many locations than a bunch of small shops. There's a lot of room to grow here. Also, crashes are up.
(A Top Pick March 9/18 Up 17%) There is a strong CEO and management and he has owned is personally for years. They buy the smaller auto repairs outlets and the revenue stream is regular and recurring. The risk is self-driving cars in the future that will reduce auto repairs in general. The dividend has increased for 50 consecutive quarters.
Boyd is one of the top consolidators--it's in an industry with lots of mom-and-pop shops which are ripe for consolidation. There are hundreds of thousands of auto body shops across North America. Boyd came out of Winnipeg because this market has a monopoly public auto insurer. No insurer wants to deal with thousands of auto body shops, and this has benefiitted Boyd.