FAT vs. LOCO, CVEO, PBPB, GENK, GHG, FLL, MRNO, LVO, STKS, and CNTY
Should you be buying FAT Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FAT Brands include El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Civeo (CVEO), Potbelly (PBPB), GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG), Full House Resorts (FLL), Murano Global Investments (MRNO), LiveOne (LVO), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), and Century Casinos (CNTY). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
FAT Brands vs.
FAT Brands (NASDAQ:FAT) and El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
El Pollo Loco has a net margin of 5.11% compared to FAT Brands' net margin of -24.53%. El Pollo Loco's return on equity of 10.34% beat FAT Brands' return on equity.
El Pollo Loco received 190 more outperform votes than FAT Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.31% of users gave FAT Brands an outperform vote while only 59.37% of users gave El Pollo Loco an outperform vote.
El Pollo Loco has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.54%. Given El Pollo Loco's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe El Pollo Loco is more favorable than FAT Brands.
6.9% of FAT Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are held by institutional investors. 14.4% of FAT Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of El Pollo Loco shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
FAT Brands has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, El Pollo Loco has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
El Pollo Loco has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FAT Brands. FAT Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than El Pollo Loco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, FAT Brands had 4 more articles in the media than El Pollo Loco. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for FAT Brands and 3 mentions for El Pollo Loco. El Pollo Loco's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat FAT Brands' score of 0.23 indicating that El Pollo Loco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
El Pollo Loco beats FAT Brands on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:FAT) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
