CAKE vs. BLMN, PZZA, EAT, CBRL, JACK, BJRI, DIN, PLAY, ARCO, and KRUS
Should you be buying Cheesecake Factory stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cheesecake Factory include Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Brinker International (EAT), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Jack in the Box (JACK), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), and Kura Sushi USA (KRUS). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ:CAKE) and Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, Cheesecake Factory had 20 more articles in the media than Bloomin' Brands. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Cheesecake Factory and 6 mentions for Bloomin' Brands. Bloomin' Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Cheesecake Factory's score of 0.21 indicating that Bloomin' Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.5% of Cheesecake Factory shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of Cheesecake Factory shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Bloomin' Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Cheesecake Factory has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloomin' Brands has a beta of 2.02, indicating that its stock price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cheesecake Factory pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Bloomin' Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Cheesecake Factory pays out 49.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bloomin' Brands pays out 150.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Cheesecake Factory presently has a consensus price target of $39.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.46%. Bloomin' Brands has a consensus price target of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 17.27%. Given Bloomin' Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bloomin' Brands is more favorable than Cheesecake Factory.
Bloomin' Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Cheesecake Factory. Cheesecake Factory is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bloomin' Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bloomin' Brands received 41 more outperform votes than Cheesecake Factory when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.62% of users gave Bloomin' Brands an outperform vote while only 52.13% of users gave Cheesecake Factory an outperform vote.
Cheesecake Factory has a net margin of 3.07% compared to Bloomin' Brands' net margin of 1.56%. Bloomin' Brands' return on equity of 65.73% beat Cheesecake Factory's return on equity.
Summary
Bloomin' Brands beats Cheesecake Factory on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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