PTLO vs. RUTH, DIN, CHUY, DENN, ARCO, CAKE, PLAY, BLMN, PZZA, and FWRG
Should you be buying Portillo's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Portillo's include Ruth's Hospitality Group (RUTH), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Chuy's (CHUY), Denny's (DENN), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), and First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG).
Ruth's Hospitality Group (NASDAQ:RUTH) and Portillo's (NASDAQ:PTLO) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.
Ruth's Hospitality Group has a net margin of 7.66% compared to Ruth's Hospitality Group's net margin of 3.41%. Portillo's' return on equity of 32.00% beat Ruth's Hospitality Group's return on equity.
Ruth's Hospitality Group has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Portillo's has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.3% of Ruth's Hospitality Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Portillo's shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of Ruth's Hospitality Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Portillo's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ruth's Hospitality Group received 371 more outperform votes than Portillo's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.01% of users gave Ruth's Hospitality Group an outperform vote while only 45.65% of users gave Portillo's an outperform vote.
Ruth's Hospitality Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Portillo's. Ruth's Hospitality Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Portillo's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Portillo's had 3 more articles in the media than Ruth's Hospitality Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Portillo's and 0 mentions for Ruth's Hospitality Group. Ruth's Hospitality Group's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Portillo's' score of 0.08 indicating that Portillo's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Portillo's has a consensus target price of $18.17, suggesting a potential upside of 81.30%. Given Ruth's Hospitality Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Portillo's is more favorable than Ruth's Hospitality Group.
Summary
Portillo's beats Ruth's Hospitality Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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