SG vs. EAT, ARCO, PLAY, BLMN, PZZA, CAKE, FWRG, KRUS, CBRL, and JACK
Should you be buying Sweetgreen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sweetgreen include Brinker International (EAT), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Brinker International (NYSE:EAT) and Sweetgreen (NYSE:SG) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Brinker International presently has a consensus price target of $46.06, indicating a potential downside of 26.37%. Sweetgreen has a consensus price target of $25.75, indicating a potential downside of 18.90%. Given Brinker International's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sweetgreen is more favorable than Brinker International.
Brinker International received 681 more outperform votes than Sweetgreen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.18% of users gave Brinker International an outperform vote while only 39.47% of users gave Sweetgreen an outperform vote.
Brinker International has higher revenue and earnings than Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brinker International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Brinker International had 6 more articles in the media than Sweetgreen. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Brinker International and 15 mentions for Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Brinker International's score of 0.50 indicating that Brinker International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
95.8% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Brinker International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 21.5% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by 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.
Brinker International has a net margin of 3.55% compared to Brinker International's net margin of -17.15%. Brinker International's return on equity of -20.74% beat Sweetgreen's return on equity.
Brinker International has a beta of 2.42, indicating that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sweetgreen has a beta of 2.22, indicating that its share price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Brinker International beats Sweetgreen on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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