KRUS vs. RICK, NATH, PBPB, JAX, STKS, SG, EAT, ARCO, CAKE, and PLAY
Should you be buying Kura Sushi USA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kura Sushi USA include RCI Hospitality (RICK), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Potbelly (PBPB), J. Alexander's (JAX), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), Sweetgreen (SG), Brinker International (EAT), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), and Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY).
RCI Hospitality (NASDAQ:RICK) and Kura Sushi USA (NASDAQ:KRUS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment and community ranking.
RCI Hospitality currently has a consensus price target of $111.50, indicating a potential upside of 146.95%. Kura Sushi USA has a consensus price target of $109.50, indicating a potential upside of 22.83%. Given Kura Sushi USA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RCI Hospitality is more favorable than Kura Sushi USA.
RCI Hospitality has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kura Sushi USA has a beta of 1.93, suggesting that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RCI Hospitality has higher revenue and earnings than Kura Sushi USA. RCI Hospitality is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kura Sushi USA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RCI Hospitality received 190 more outperform votes than Kura Sushi USA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.72% of users gave RCI Hospitality an outperform vote while only 61.79% of users gave Kura Sushi USA an outperform vote.
RCI Hospitality has a net margin of 6.46% compared to RCI Hospitality's net margin of 0.73%. Kura Sushi USA's return on equity of 6.80% beat RCI Hospitality's return on equity.
53.8% of RCI Hospitality shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Kura Sushi USA shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of RCI Hospitality shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Kura Sushi USA shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Kura Sushi USA had 9 more articles in the media than RCI Hospitality. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Kura Sushi USA and 0 mentions for RCI Hospitality. RCI Hospitality's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Kura Sushi USA's score of 0.00 indicating that Kura Sushi USA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
RCI Hospitality beats Kura Sushi USA on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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