KRUS vs. SG, BH.A, PK, ARCO, PLYA, SHCO, HDL, XHR, FWRG, and CNNE
Should you be buying Kura Sushi USA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kura Sushi USA include Sweetgreen (SG), Biglari (BH.A), Park Hotels & Resorts (PK), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA), Soho House & Co Inc. (SHCO), Super Hi International (HDL), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), and Cannae (CNNE). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Kura Sushi USA vs.
Sweetgreen (NYSE:SG) and Kura Sushi USA (NASDAQ:KRUS) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Sweetgreen currently has a consensus price target of $40.60, suggesting a potential upside of 71.99%. Kura Sushi USA has a consensus price target of $89.75, suggesting a potential upside of 21.22%. Given Sweetgreen's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sweetgreen is more favorable than Kura Sushi USA.
In the previous week, Sweetgreen had 12 more articles in the media than Kura Sushi USA. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Sweetgreen and 0 mentions for Kura Sushi USA. Kura Sushi USA's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Sweetgreen's score of 0.93 indicating that Kura Sushi USA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
95.8% of Sweetgreen shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Kura Sushi USA shares are held by institutional investors. 21.5% of Sweetgreen shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Kura Sushi USA shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Kura Sushi USA has a net margin of -3.08% compared to Sweetgreen's net margin of -13.27%. Kura Sushi USA's return on equity of -0.50% beat Sweetgreen's return on equity.
Kura Sushi USA received 52 more outperform votes than Sweetgreen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.14% of users gave Kura Sushi USA an outperform vote while only 52.31% of users gave Sweetgreen an outperform vote.
Sweetgreen has a beta of 2.37, meaning that its stock price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kura Sushi USA has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kura Sushi USA has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Sweetgreen. Kura Sushi USA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sweetgreen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sweetgreen beats Kura Sushi USA on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:KRUS) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
