PBPB vs. XHR, FWRG, CNNE, PTLO, KRUS, TH, MSC, BALY, LOCO, and CVEO
Should you be buying Potbelly stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Potbelly include Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Cannae (CNNE), Portillo's (PTLO), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Target Hospitality (TH), Studio City International (MSC), Bally's (BALY), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), and Civeo (CVEO). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Potbelly vs.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:XHR) and Potbelly (NASDAQ:PBPB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
92.4% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.6% of Potbelly shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.1% of Potbelly shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Potbelly received 28 more outperform votes than Xenia Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.39% of users gave Potbelly an outperform vote while only 56.83% of users gave Xenia Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts currently has a consensus target price of $17.38, indicating a potential upside of 24.24%. Potbelly has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 32.56%. Given Potbelly's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Potbelly is more favorable than Xenia Hotels & Resorts.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Potbelly has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has higher revenue and earnings than Potbelly. Potbelly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xenia Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Potbelly has a net margin of 8.14% compared to Xenia Hotels & Resorts' net margin of 2.37%. Potbelly's return on equity of 18.69% beat Xenia Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.
In the previous week, Potbelly had 7 more articles in the media than Xenia Hotels & Resorts. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Potbelly and 9 mentions for Xenia Hotels & Resorts. Potbelly's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Xenia Hotels & Resorts' score of 0.03 indicating that Potbelly is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Potbelly beats Xenia Hotels & Resorts on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PBPB) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
