QSR vs. YUM, DRI, YUMC, TXRH, WING, CAVA, ARMK, MAIN, SG, and EAT
Should you be buying Restaurant Brands International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Restaurant Brands International include Yum! Brands (YUM), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Yum China (YUMC), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wingstop (WING), CAVA Group (CAVA), Aramark (ARMK), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Sweetgreen (SG), and Brinker International (EAT). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) and Restaurant Brands International (NYSE:QSR) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Yum! Brands presently has a consensus price target of $143.27, suggesting a potential upside of 4.25%. Restaurant Brands International has a consensus price target of $83.18, suggesting a potential upside of 21.29%. Given Yum! Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Restaurant Brands International is more favorable than Yum! Brands.
Yum! Brands has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Restaurant Brands International has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yum! Brands received 415 more outperform votes than Restaurant Brands International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.30% of users gave Yum! Brands an outperform vote while only 60.67% of users gave Restaurant Brands International an outperform vote.
Yum! Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Restaurant Brands International. Restaurant Brands International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yum! Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yum! Brands has a net margin of 22.92% compared to Yum! Brands' net margin of 17.17%. Yum! Brands' return on equity of 31.12% beat Restaurant Brands International's return on equity.
82.4% of Yum! Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.3% of Restaurant Brands International shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yum! Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Restaurant Brands International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Restaurant Brands International had 6 more articles in the media than Yum! Brands. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Restaurant Brands International and 10 mentions for Yum! Brands. Restaurant Brands International's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Yum! Brands' score of 0.47 indicating that Yum! Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Yum! Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Restaurant Brands International pays an annual dividend of $2.32 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. Restaurant Brands International pays out 59.8% 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. Yum! Brands has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Restaurant Brands International has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years. Restaurant Brands International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Yum! Brands beats Restaurant Brands International on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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