FAT vs. LUB, GTIM, BBQ, GENK, LOCO, NATH, PBPB, THCH, LVO, and STKS
Should you be buying FAT Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FAT Brands include Luby's (LUB), Good Times Restaurants (GTIM), BBQ (BBQ), GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Potbelly (PBPB), TH International (THCH), LiveOne (LVO), and ONE Group Hospitality (STKS).
FAT Brands (NASDAQ:FAT) and Luby's (NYSE:LUB) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Luby's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FAT Brands.
6.9% of FAT Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.9% of Luby's shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of FAT Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.6% of Luby's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
FAT Brands presently has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 154.67%. Given FAT Brands' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe FAT Brands is more favorable than Luby's.
Luby's has a net margin of 0.00% compared to FAT Brands' net margin of -18.28%.
In the previous week, FAT Brands had 4 more articles in the media than Luby's. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for FAT Brands and 1 mentions for Luby's. FAT Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Luby's' score of -0.44 indicating that FAT Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FAT Brands received 27 more outperform votes than Luby's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.89% of users gave Luby's an outperform vote while only 61.31% of users gave FAT Brands an outperform vote.
FAT Brands has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Luby's has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
FAT Brands and Luby's tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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