ARKR vs. GTIM, FAT, NDLS, RRGB, THCH, STKS, LL, TGL, LGCB, and HOUR
Should you be buying Ark Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ark Restaurants include Good Times Restaurants (GTIM), FAT Brands (FAT), Noodles & Company (NDLS), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), TH International (THCH), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), LL Flooring (LL), Treasure Global (TGL), Linkage Global (LGCB), and Hour Loop (HOUR). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Ark Restaurants (NASDAQ:ARKR) and Good Times Restaurants (NASDAQ:GTIM) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Ark Restaurants had 12 more articles in the media than Good Times Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Ark Restaurants and 1 mentions for Good Times Restaurants. Ark Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Good Times Restaurants' score of 0.00 indicating that Ark Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media.
32.0% of Ark Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.1% of Good Times Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. 37.2% of Ark Restaurants shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.7% of Good Times Restaurants shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Good Times Restaurants has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ark Restaurants. Ark Restaurants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Good Times Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ark Restaurants has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Good Times Restaurants has a beta of 1.77, meaning that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Good Times Restaurants received 287 more outperform votes than Ark Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 83.31% of users gave Good Times Restaurants an outperform vote while only 70.45% of users gave Ark Restaurants an outperform vote.
Good Times Restaurants has a net margin of 0.47% compared to Ark Restaurants' net margin of -3.91%. Good Times Restaurants' return on equity of 2.00% beat Ark Restaurants' return on equity.
Summary
Good Times Restaurants beats Ark Restaurants on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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