GENK vs. BALY, TH, CVEO, PBPB, LOCO, GHG, FLL, MRNO, THCH, and STKS
Should you be buying GEN Restaurant Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GEN Restaurant Group include Bally's (BALY), Target Hospitality (TH), Civeo (CVEO), Potbelly (PBPB), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG), Full House Resorts (FLL), Murano Global Investments (MRNO), TH International (THCH), and ONE Group Hospitality (STKS). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
GEN Restaurant Group vs.
Bally's (NYSE:BALY) and GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
GEN Restaurant Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bally's. Bally's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GEN Restaurant Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
70.4% of Bally's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are held by institutional investors. 28.9% of Bally's shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 61.1% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Bally's had 2 more articles in the media than GEN Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Bally's and 2 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group. GEN Restaurant Group's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Bally's' score of 1.00 indicating that GEN Restaurant Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bally's presently has a consensus target price of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.75%. GEN Restaurant Group has a consensus target price of $13.17, suggesting a potential upside of 132.22%. Given GEN Restaurant Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than Bally's.
Bally's has a beta of 2.05, indicating that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GEN Restaurant Group has a beta of 1.89, indicating that its share price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bally's received 10 more outperform votes than GEN Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave GEN Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 30.38% of users gave Bally's an outperform vote.
GEN Restaurant Group has a net margin of 0.39% compared to Bally's' net margin of -30.04%. GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity of 1.83% beat Bally's' return on equity.
Summary
GEN Restaurant Group beats Bally's on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GENK) was last updated on 3/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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