NATH vs. DENN, RRGB, RICK, BH, CHUY, TAST, DIN, BJRI, JACK, and PBPB
Should you be buying Nathan's Famous stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nathan's Famous include Denny's (DENN), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Biglari (BH), Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Dine Brands Global (DIN), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Jack in the Box (JACK), and Potbelly (PBPB). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Nathan's Famous (NASDAQ:NATH) and Denny's (NASDAQ:DENN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
Denny's has a consensus target price of $11.42, indicating a potential upside of 46.56%. Given Denny's' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Denny's is more favorable than Nathan's Famous.
Denny's has higher revenue and earnings than Nathan's Famous. Nathan's Famous is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Denny's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nathan's Famous has a beta of 0.27, meaning that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Denny's has a beta of 1.94, meaning that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nathan's Famous has a net margin of 13.84% compared to Denny's' net margin of 5.27%. Nathan's Famous' return on equity of -49.23% beat Denny's' return on equity.
In the previous week, Denny's had 28 more articles in the media than Nathan's Famous. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Denny's and 3 mentions for Nathan's Famous. Denny's' average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Nathan's Famous' score of -0.30 indicating that Denny's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Denny's received 204 more outperform votes than Nathan's Famous when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.35% of users gave Nathan's Famous an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave Denny's an outperform vote.
66.5% of Nathan's Famous shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of Denny's shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.6% of Nathan's Famous shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Denny's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Denny's beats Nathan's Famous on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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