EAT vs. TXRH, WEN, CAKE, BLMN, PZZA, CBRL, JACK, BJRI, DIN, and TAST
Should you be buying Brinker International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brinker International include Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wendy's (WEN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Jack in the Box (JACK), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Dine Brands Global (DIN), and Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Texas Roadhouse (NASDAQ:TXRH) and Brinker International (NYSE:EAT) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Texas Roadhouse has higher revenue and earnings than Brinker International. Brinker International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Texas Roadhouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Texas Roadhouse has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Brinker International has a beta of 2.42, meaning that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Texas Roadhouse currently has a consensus target price of $157.32, suggesting a potential downside of 8.89%. Brinker International has a consensus target price of $49.12, suggesting a potential downside of 30.46%. Given Brinker International's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Texas Roadhouse is more favorable than Brinker International.
94.8% of Texas Roadhouse shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Texas Roadhouse shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Brinker International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Brinker International received 126 more outperform votes than Texas Roadhouse when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.20% of users gave Brinker International an outperform vote while only 53.56% of users gave Texas Roadhouse an outperform vote.
Texas Roadhouse has a net margin of 6.94% compared to Texas Roadhouse's net margin of 3.55%. Brinker International's return on equity of 28.85% beat Texas Roadhouse's return on equity.
In the previous week, Texas Roadhouse had 2 more articles in the media than Brinker International. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Texas Roadhouse and 15 mentions for Brinker International. Texas Roadhouse's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Brinker International's score of 0.65 indicating that Brinker International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Texas Roadhouse beats Brinker International on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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