DPZ vs. YUM, DRI, TXRH, WEN, EAT, CAKE, BLMN, PZZA, CBRL, and JACK
Should you be buying Domino's Pizza stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Domino's Pizza include Yum! Brands (YUM), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wendy's (WEN), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Domino's Pizza (NYSE:DPZ) and Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
94.6% of Domino's Pizza shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.4% of Yum! Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Domino's Pizza shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yum! Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Yum! Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Domino's Pizza. Yum! Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Domino's Pizza, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Domino's Pizza has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yum! Brands has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Yum! Brands has a net margin of 22.92% compared to Domino's Pizza's net margin of 11.90%. Domino's Pizza's return on equity of -13.19% beat Yum! Brands' return on equity.
Domino's Pizza currently has a consensus price target of $518.46, suggesting a potential upside of 1.94%. Yum! Brands has a consensus price target of $143.27, suggesting a potential upside of 4.25%. Given Yum! Brands' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Yum! Brands is more favorable than Domino's Pizza.
Yum! Brands received 176 more outperform votes than Domino's Pizza when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.30% of users gave Yum! Brands an outperform vote while only 62.23% of users gave Domino's Pizza an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Yum! Brands had 3 more articles in the media than Domino's Pizza. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Yum! Brands and 8 mentions for Domino's Pizza. Domino's Pizza's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Yum! Brands' score of 0.62 indicating that Domino's Pizza is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Domino's Pizza pays an annual dividend of $6.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Yum! Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Domino's Pizza pays out 39.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Yum! Brands pays out 47.5% 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
Domino's Pizza and Yum! Brands tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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