NATH vs. CBRL, PZZA, BLMN, BJRI, JACK, BH, RICK, DIN, DENN, and RRGB
Should you be buying Nathan's Famous stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nathan's Famous include Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Papa Johns International (PZZA), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Jack in the Box (JACK), Biglari (BH), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Denny's (DENN), and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Nathan's Famous vs.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ:CBRL) and Nathan's Famous (NASDAQ:NATH) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nathan's Famous has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nathan's Famous has a net margin of 15.18% compared to Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's net margin of 1.15%. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's return on equity of 18.61% beat Nathan's Famous' return on equity.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Nathan's Famous pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store pays out 55.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nathan's Famous pays out 37.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Nathan's Famous is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store currently has a consensus target price of $57.63, suggesting a potential upside of 5.29%. Given Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cracker Barrel Old Country Store is more favorable than Nathan's Famous.
96.0% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.5% of Nathan's Famous shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.7% of Nathan's Famous shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store had 6 more articles in the media than Nathan's Famous. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and 1 mentions for Nathan's Famous. Nathan's Famous' average media sentiment score of 2.00 beat Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's score of 0.21 indicating that Nathan's Famous is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has higher revenue and earnings than Nathan's Famous. Nathan's Famous is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store received 222 more outperform votes than Nathan's Famous when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.96% of users gave Nathan's Famous an outperform vote while only 48.26% of users gave Cracker Barrel Old Country Store an outperform vote.
Summary
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store beats Nathan's Famous on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NATH) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
