GENK vs. LOCO, DENN, NATH, PBPB, BH, CHUY, TAST, STKS, THCH, and RRGB Should you be buying GEN Restaurant Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GEN Restaurant Group include El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Denny's (DENN), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Potbelly (PBPB), Biglari (BH), Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), TH International (THCH), and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK ) and El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO ) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and community ranking.
El Pollo Loco received 340 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 59.97% of users gave El Pollo Loco an outperform vote.
El Pollo Loco has higher revenue and earnings than GEN Restaurant Group. El Pollo Loco 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.
10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
El Pollo Loco has a net margin of 5.64% compared to GEN Restaurant Group's net margin of 0.44%. El Pollo Loco's return on equity of 10.13% beat GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity.
GEN Restaurant Group presently has a consensus target price of $13.83, indicating a potential upside of 16.74%. El Pollo Loco has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.79%. Given GEN Restaurant Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than El Pollo Loco.
In the previous week, GEN Restaurant Group had 21 more articles in the media than El Pollo Loco. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group and 6 mentions for El Pollo Loco. El Pollo Loco's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat GEN Restaurant Group's score of 0.25 indicating that El Pollo Loco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary El Pollo Loco beats GEN Restaurant Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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