TAST vs. TACO, HABT, CAKE, BLMN, PZZA, JACK, CBRL, BJRI, DIN, and CHUY
Should you be buying Carrols Restaurant Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carrols Restaurant Group include Del Taco Restaurants (TACO), Habit Restaurants (HABT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Dine Brands Global (DIN), and Chuy's (CHUY). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Del Taco Restaurants (NASDAQ:TACO) and Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) 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 risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Del Taco Restaurants has a beta of 2.06, meaning that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carrols Restaurant Group has a beta of 2.48, meaning that its stock price is 148% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Del Taco Restaurants received 101 more outperform votes than Carrols Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.55% of users gave Carrols Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 58.93% of users gave Del Taco Restaurants an outperform vote.
Carrols Restaurant Group has higher revenue and earnings than Del Taco Restaurants. Carrols Restaurant Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Del Taco Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Del Taco Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Carrols Restaurant Group pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Del Taco Restaurants pays out 30.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Carrols Restaurant Group pays out 14.0% 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.
In the previous week, Del Taco Restaurants had 2 more articles in the media than Carrols Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Del Taco Restaurants and 1 mentions for Carrols Restaurant Group. Del Taco Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Carrols Restaurant Group's score of 0.37 indicating that Carrols Restaurant Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carrols Restaurant Group has a consensus target price of $9.55, indicating a potential upside of 0.10%. Given Del Taco Restaurants' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Carrols Restaurant Group is more favorable than Del Taco Restaurants.
83.3% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.8% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.1% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Del Taco Restaurants has a net margin of 3.83% compared to Del Taco Restaurants' net margin of 1.94%. Del Taco Restaurants' return on equity of 22.38% beat Carrols Restaurant Group's return on equity.
Summary
Carrols Restaurant Group beats Del Taco Restaurants on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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