DENN vs. HABT, LOCO, NDLS, JACK, CBRL, BJRI, DIN, TAST, BH, and CHUY
Should you be buying Denny's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Denny's include Habit Restaurants (HABT), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Noodles & Company (NDLS), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Biglari (BH), and Chuy's (CHUY). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Habit Restaurants (NASDAQ:HABT) and Denny's (NASDAQ:DENN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Denny's had 17 more articles in the media than Habit Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Denny's and 5 mentions for Habit Restaurants. Habit Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat Denny's' score of 0.00 indicating that Denny's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Habit Restaurants has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Denny's has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Denny's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Habit Restaurants. Denny's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Habit Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Denny's has a net margin of 5.27% compared to Denny's' net margin of 0.75%. Denny's' return on equity of 2.37% beat Habit Restaurants' return on equity.
Denny's has a consensus price target of $11.42, indicating a potential upside of 59.23%. Given Habit Restaurants' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Denny's is more favorable than Habit Restaurants.
Denny's received 20 more outperform votes than Habit Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.60% of users gave Habit Restaurants an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave Denny's an outperform vote.
64.3% of Habit Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of Denny's shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Habit Restaurants shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Denny's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Denny's beats Habit Restaurants on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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