YUM vs. DRI, TXRH, CMG, QSR, YUMC, WING, FAST, KR, CPNG, and ROST
Should you be buying Yum! Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yum! Brands include Darden Restaurants (DRI), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Yum China (YUMC), Wingstop (WING), Fastenal (FAST), Kroger (KR), Coupang (CPNG), and Ross Stores (ROST). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) and Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Yum! Brands had 11 more articles in the media than Darden Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Yum! Brands and 15 mentions for Darden Restaurants. Yum! Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Darden Restaurants' score of 0.74 indicating that Yum! Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Yum! Brands has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Darden Restaurants. Darden Restaurants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yum! Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Darden Restaurants received 57 more outperform votes than Yum! Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.57% of users gave Darden Restaurants an outperform vote while only 65.28% of users gave Yum! Brands an outperform vote.
Yum! Brands has a net margin of 22.92% compared to Darden Restaurants' net margin of 9.24%. Darden Restaurants' return on equity of 49.94% beat Yum! Brands' return on equity.
Yum! Brands currently has a consensus target price of $143.53, indicating a potential upside of 1.32%. Darden Restaurants has a consensus target price of $178.67, indicating a potential upside of 16.02%. Given Darden Restaurants' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Darden Restaurants is more favorable than Yum! Brands.
Yum! Brands has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darden Restaurants has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
82.4% of Yum! Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yum! Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Yum! Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Darden Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $5.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Yum! Brands pays out 47.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Darden Restaurants pays out 61.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Darden Restaurants beats Yum! Brands on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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