LOCO vs. GENK, NATH, DENN, PBPB, BH, CHUY, STKS, TAST, THCH, and RRGB
Should you be buying El Pollo Loco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of El Pollo Loco include GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Denny's (DENN), Potbelly (PBPB), Biglari (BH), Chuy's (CHUY), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), TH International (THCH), and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) and GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and earnings.
81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of El Pollo Loco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, GEN Restaurant Group had 20 more articles in the media than El Pollo Loco. MarketBeat recorded 26 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 media.
El Pollo Loco currently has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.79%. GEN Restaurant Group has a consensus target price of $13.83, suggesting a potential upside of 16.74%. Given GEN Restaurant Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than El Pollo Loco.
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 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.
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.
Summary
El Pollo Loco beats GEN Restaurant Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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