ARCO vs. MAIN, SG, EAT, CAKE, PLAY, BLMN, PZZA, FWRG, JACK, and CBRL
Should you be buying Arcos Dorados stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arcos Dorados include Main Street Capital (MAIN), Sweetgreen (SG), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Jack in the Box (JACK), and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Arcos Dorados (NYSE:ARCO) and Main Street Capital (NYSE:MAIN) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.
Main Street Capital received 126 more outperform votes than Arcos Dorados when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.90% of users gave Main Street Capital an outperform vote while only 55.24% of users gave Arcos Dorados an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Main Street Capital had 9 more articles in the media than Arcos Dorados. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Main Street Capital and 2 mentions for Arcos Dorados. Main Street Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Arcos Dorados' score of 0.32 indicating that Main Street Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Arcos Dorados presently has a consensus price target of $13.83, suggesting a potential upside of 46.54%. Main Street Capital has a consensus price target of $47.67, suggesting a potential downside of 2.30%. Given Arcos Dorados' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Arcos Dorados is more favorable than Main Street Capital.
Arcos Dorados pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Main Street Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Arcos Dorados pays out 29.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Main Street Capital pays out 52.6% 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.
Main Street Capital has a net margin of 89.11% compared to Arcos Dorados' net margin of 3.90%. Arcos Dorados' return on equity of 38.57% beat Main Street Capital's return on equity.
Main Street Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Arcos Dorados. Main Street Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arcos Dorados, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.9% of Arcos Dorados shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.3% of Main Street Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Main Street Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Arcos Dorados has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Main Street Capital has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Main Street Capital beats Arcos Dorados on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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