ARKR vs. LUB, BBQ, THCH, STKS, LVO, RRGB, FAT, NDLS, GTIM, and BFI
Should you be buying Ark Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ark Restaurants include Luby's (LUB), BBQ (BBQ), TH International (THCH), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), LiveOne (LVO), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), FAT Brands (FAT), Noodles & Company (NDLS), Good Times Restaurants (GTIM), and BurgerFi International (BFI).
Luby's (NYSE:LUB) and Ark Restaurants (NASDAQ:ARKR) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Luby's has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ark Restaurants has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
41.9% of Luby's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of Ark Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. 24.6% of Luby's shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.2% of Ark Restaurants shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ark Restaurants had 5 more articles in the media than Luby's. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Ark Restaurants and 1 mentions for Luby's. Luby's' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Ark Restaurants' score of -0.44 indicating that Ark Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Luby's has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Luby's' net margin of -3.91%. Luby's' return on equity of 1.19% beat Ark Restaurants' return on equity.
Ark Restaurants has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Luby's.
Ark Restaurants received 77 more outperform votes than Luby's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.55% of users gave Ark Restaurants an outperform vote while only 65.89% of users gave Luby's an outperform vote.
Summary
Ark Restaurants beats Luby's on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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