GENK vs. FWRG, KRUS, CBRL, JACK, BJRI, PTLO, DIN, TAST, CHUY, and BH
Should you be buying GEN Restaurant Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GEN Restaurant Group include First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Jack in the Box (JACK), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Portillo's (PTLO), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Chuy's (CHUY), and Biglari (BH). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) and First Watch Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:FWRG) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of First Watch Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.0% of First Watch Restaurant Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
First Watch Restaurant Group received 19 more outperform votes than GEN Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave GEN Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 52.54% of users gave First Watch Restaurant Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, GEN Restaurant Group had 5 more articles in the media than First Watch Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group and 2 mentions for First Watch Restaurant Group. First Watch Restaurant Group's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat GEN Restaurant Group's score of 0.55 indicating that First Watch Restaurant Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
First Watch Restaurant Group has a net margin of 2.52% compared to GEN Restaurant Group's net margin of 0.44%. First Watch Restaurant Group's return on equity of 4.15% beat GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity.
First Watch Restaurant Group has higher revenue and earnings than GEN Restaurant Group. First Watch Restaurant Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GEN Restaurant Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GEN Restaurant Group presently has a consensus price target of $13.83, indicating a potential upside of 24.29%. First Watch Restaurant Group has a consensus price target of $25.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.57%. Given First Watch Restaurant Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe First Watch Restaurant Group is more favorable than GEN Restaurant Group.
Summary
First Watch Restaurant Group beats GEN Restaurant Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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