DENN vs. BH, CHUY, TAST, NATH, DIN, RRGB, NDLS, BJRI, JACK, and CBRL
Should you be buying Denny's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Denny's include Biglari (BH), Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Noodles & Company (NDLS), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Jack in the Box (JACK), and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Biglari (NYSE:BH) and Denny's (NASDAQ:DENN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
Biglari has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Denny's. Biglari is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Denny's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Denny's had 29 more articles in the media than Biglari. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Denny's and 1 mentions for Biglari. Biglari's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Denny's' score of -0.17 indicating that Denny's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
74.3% of Biglari shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of Denny's shares are held by institutional investors. 71.4% of Biglari shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Denny's shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Denny's has a consensus price target of $11.42, indicating a potential upside of 46.56%. Given Biglari's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Denny's is more favorable than Biglari.
Denny's received 105 more outperform votes than Biglari when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.22% of users gave Biglari an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave Denny's an outperform vote.
Denny's has a net margin of 5.27% compared to Denny's' net margin of 3.47%. Denny's' return on equity of 2.11% beat Biglari's return on equity.
Biglari has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Denny's has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Denny's beats Biglari on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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