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Denny's (DENN) Competitors

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$5.93 +0.15 (+2.60%)
As of 01/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

DENN vs. BLMN, BJRI, JACK, BH, RICK, DIN, NATH, RRGB, MCD, and SBUX

Should you be buying Denny's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Denny's include Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Jack in the Box (JACK), Biglari (BH), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), McDonald's (MCD), and Starbucks (SBUX). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.

Denny's vs.

Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) and Denny's (NASDAQ:DENN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.

Denny's has a net margin of 3.90% compared to Bloomin' Brands' net margin of -0.12%. Bloomin' Brands' return on equity of 62.18% beat Denny's' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bloomin' Brands-0.12% 62.18% 5.71%
Denny's 3.90%-48.64%5.96%

Bloomin' Brands currently has a consensus target price of $16.90, indicating a potential upside of 49.69%. Denny's has a consensus target price of $7.90, indicating a potential upside of 33.22%. Given Bloomin' Brands' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Bloomin' Brands is more favorable than Denny's.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Bloomin' Brands
1 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.91
Denny's
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80

85.1% of Denny's shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Bloomin' Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Denny's shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Bloomin' Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Denny's. Bloomin' Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Denny's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Bloomin' Brands$4.67B0.21$247.39M-$0.11-102.63
Denny's$453.01M0.67$19.94M$0.3317.97

Bloomin' Brands received 208 more outperform votes than Denny's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.63% of users gave Denny's an outperform vote while only 61.46% of users gave Bloomin' Brands an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Bloomin' BrandsOutperform Votes
571
61.46%
Underperform Votes
358
38.54%
Denny'sOutperform Votes
363
61.63%
Underperform Votes
226
38.37%

In the previous week, Denny's had 13 more articles in the media than Bloomin' Brands. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Denny's and 3 mentions for Bloomin' Brands. Bloomin' Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Denny's' score of 0.33 indicating that Bloomin' Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Bloomin' Brands
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Denny's
5 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Bloomin' Brands has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Denny's has a beta of 2.01, indicating that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Denny's beats Bloomin' Brands on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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DENN vs. The Competition

MetricDenny'sEating places IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$304.38M$8.81B$24.24B$9.09B
Dividend YieldN/A3.81%167.18%4.03%
P/E Ratio17.9729.58110.4717.33
Price / Sales0.672.423.69134.95
Price / Cash6.2119.8320.3635.97
Price / Book-5.039.206.704.80
Net Income$19.94M$320.68M$675.95M$224.91M
7 Day Performance5.70%1.35%1.30%1.77%
1 Month Performance-5.27%-3.27%-2.09%2.22%
1 Year Performance-43.25%3.59%14.99%20.67%

Denny's Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DENN
Denny's
4.2365 of 5 stars
$5.93
+2.6%
$7.90
+33.2%
-43.3%$287.96M$463.92M17.973,500Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
BLMN
Bloomin' Brands
3.7111 of 5 stars
$11.22
-2.0%
$16.90
+50.6%
-54.6%$951.94M$4.55B-101.9987,000Short Interest ↑
BJRI
BJ's Restaurants
4.7029 of 5 stars
$34.52
+0.3%
$38.00
+10.1%
+12.6%$787.64M$1.34B27.6222,200Short Interest ↓
JACK
Jack in the Box
4.6581 of 5 stars
$38.28
+2.9%
$58.35
+52.4%
-48.7%$720.85M$1.57B-19.638,168Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↑
BH
Biglari
3.5577 of 5 stars
$218.51
+0.2%
N/A+40.8%$497.33M$361.66M1.242,466Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
RICK
RCI Hospitality
1.9975 of 5 stars
$52.77
-2.6%
$98.00
+85.7%
-16.1%$469.65M$295.60M101.483,219Short Interest ↓
DIN
Dine Brands Global
4.1023 of 5 stars
$26.26
-1.2%
$41.43
+57.8%
-39.1%$400.36M$813.84M4.373,520
NATH
Nathan's Famous
3.0444 of 5 stars
$77.30
+0.7%
N/A+8.5%$315.77M$143.76M14.48130News Coverage
Positive News
RRGB
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
3.6508 of 5 stars
$5.47
+2.1%
$14.50
+165.1%
-48.7%$95.13M$1.27B-1.6624,300Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MCD
McDonald's
4.7615 of 5 stars
$283.20
+0.3%
$321.39
+13.5%
-3.5%$202.95B$25.94B24.86150,000
SBUX
Starbucks
4.858 of 5 stars
$93.51
+1.4%
$103.77
+11.0%
+3.7%$106.02B$36.18B28.25402,000

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This page (NASDAQ:DENN) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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