BJRI vs. DIN, JACK, CBRL, TAST, CHUY, BH, DENN, NATH, PZZA, and CAKE
Should you be buying BJ's Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BJ's Restaurants include Dine Brands Global (DIN), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Chuy's (CHUY), Biglari (BH), Denny's (DENN), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Papa John's International (PZZA), and Cheesecake Factory (CAKE). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) and Dine Brands Global (NYSE:DIN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and dividends.
100.0% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Dine Brands Global shares are held by company 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.
Dine Brands Global has a net margin of 10.59% compared to BJ's Restaurants' net margin of 1.80%. BJ's Restaurants' return on equity of 6.51% beat Dine Brands Global's return on equity.
BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dine Brands Global has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dine Brands Global received 120 more outperform votes than BJ's Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.26% of users gave Dine Brands Global an outperform vote while only 54.70% of users gave BJ's Restaurants an outperform vote.
BJ's Restaurants currently has a consensus target price of $38.30, suggesting a potential upside of 8.19%. Dine Brands Global has a consensus target price of $58.57, suggesting a potential upside of 55.03%. Given Dine Brands Global's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dine Brands Global is more favorable than BJ's Restaurants.
Dine Brands Global has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BJ's Restaurants. Dine Brands Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BJ's Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BJ's Restaurants had 7 more articles in the media than Dine Brands Global. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for BJ's Restaurants and 2 mentions for Dine Brands Global. BJ's Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Dine Brands Global's score of -0.08 indicating that BJ's Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Dine Brands Global beats BJ's Restaurants on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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