TXRH vs. ARMK, DRI, EAT, PZZA, CBRL, JACK, YUM, WING, CAVA, and YUMC Should you be buying Texas Roadhouse stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Texas Roadhouse include Aramark (ARMK), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Brinker International (EAT), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Jack in the Box (JACK), Yum! Brands (YUM), Wingstop (WING), CAVA Group (CAVA), and Yum China (YUMC). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Texas Roadhouse (NASDAQ:TXRH ) and Aramark (NYSE:ARMK ) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
94.8% of Texas Roadhouse shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Texas Roadhouse shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Aramark shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Texas Roadhouse received 147 more outperform votes than Aramark when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.23% of users gave Aramark an outperform vote while only 53.61% of users gave Texas Roadhouse an outperform vote.
Aramark has higher revenue and earnings than Texas Roadhouse. Aramark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Texas Roadhouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Texas Roadhouse has a net margin of 6.94% compared to Aramark's net margin of 3.43%. Texas Roadhouse's return on equity of 28.85% beat Aramark's return on equity.
In the previous week, Texas Roadhouse had 2 more articles in the media than Aramark. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Texas Roadhouse and 8 mentions for Aramark. Aramark's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Texas Roadhouse's score of 0.92 indicating that Aramark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Texas Roadhouse pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Aramark pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Texas Roadhouse pays out 49.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aramark pays out 16.0% 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.
Texas Roadhouse currently has a consensus target price of $155.55, suggesting a potential downside of 8.31%. Aramark has a consensus target price of $33.32, suggesting a potential upside of 0.03%. Given Aramark's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aramark is more favorable than Texas Roadhouse.
Texas Roadhouse has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Aramark has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary Texas Roadhouse beats Aramark on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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