CHUY vs. TACO, HABT, PZZA, JACK, CBRL, BJRI, DIN, TAST, RICK, and BH
Should you be buying Chuy's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chuy's include Del Taco Restaurants (TACO), Habit Restaurants (HABT), Papa John's International (PZZA), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), RCI Hospitality (RICK), and Biglari (BH).
Del Taco Restaurants (NASDAQ:TACO) and Chuy's (NASDAQ:CHUY) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
83.3% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Chuy's shares are held by institutional investors. 13.2% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Chuy's shares are held 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.
Del Taco Restaurants has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chuy's has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chuy's received 42 more outperform votes than Del Taco Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.93% of users gave Del Taco Restaurants an outperform vote while only 58.40% of users gave Chuy's an outperform vote.
Chuy's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Del Taco Restaurants. Chuy's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Del Taco Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chuy's has a consensus target price of $38.14, indicating a potential upside of 42.80%. Given Del Taco Restaurants' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chuy's is more favorable than Del Taco Restaurants.
Chuy's has a net margin of 6.58% compared to Chuy's' net margin of 3.83%. Del Taco Restaurants' return on equity of 13.51% beat Chuy's' return on equity.
In the previous week, Chuy's had 3 more articles in the media than Del Taco Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Chuy's and 3 mentions for Del Taco Restaurants. Chuy's' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Del Taco Restaurants' score of 0.13 indicating that Del Taco Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Chuy's beats Del Taco Restaurants on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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