PTLO vs. RUTH, DIN, CHUY, DENN, ARCO, CAKE, PLAY, BLMN, PZZA, and FWRG
Should you be buying Portillo's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Portillo's include Ruth's Hospitality Group (RUTH), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Chuy's (CHUY), Denny's (DENN), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), and First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG).
Portillo's (NASDAQ:PTLO) and Ruth's Hospitality Group (NASDAQ:RUTH) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, valuation and community ranking.
Ruth's Hospitality Group has a net margin of 7.66% compared to Portillo's' net margin of 3.41%. Ruth's Hospitality Group's return on equity of 32.00% beat Portillo's' return on equity.
Ruth's Hospitality Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Portillo's. Ruth's Hospitality Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Portillo's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Portillo's has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ruth's Hospitality Group has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Portillo's presently has a consensus target price of $18.17, suggesting a potential upside of 81.30%. Given Portillo's' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Portillo's is more favorable than Ruth's Hospitality Group.
98.3% of Portillo's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Ruth's Hospitality Group shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Portillo's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Ruth's Hospitality Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Portillo's had 4 more articles in the media than Ruth's Hospitality Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Portillo's and 0 mentions for Ruth's Hospitality Group. Portillo's' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Ruth's Hospitality Group's score of 0.08 indicating that Portillo's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ruth's Hospitality Group received 371 more outperform votes than Portillo's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.01% of users gave Ruth's Hospitality Group an outperform vote while only 45.65% of users gave Portillo's an outperform vote.
Summary
Portillo's beats Ruth's Hospitality Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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