PBPB vs. CNNE, SHCO, FWRG, XHR, PTLO, MSC, TH, BALY, KRUS, and LOCO
Should you be buying Potbelly stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Potbelly include Cannae (CNNE), Soho House & Co Inc. (SHCO), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Portillo's (PTLO), Studio City International (MSC), Target Hospitality (TH), Bally's (BALY), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), and El Pollo Loco (LOCO). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Potbelly vs.
Cannae (NYSE:CNNE) and Potbelly (NASDAQ:PBPB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Potbelly has higher revenue and earnings than Cannae. Cannae is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Potbelly, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Potbelly has a net margin of 8.14% compared to Cannae's net margin of -68.61%. Potbelly's return on equity of 18.69% beat Cannae's return on equity.
88.1% of Cannae shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.6% of Potbelly shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.9% of Cannae shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Potbelly shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cannae currently has a consensus price target of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.16%. Potbelly has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 102.79%. Given Potbelly's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Potbelly is more favorable than Cannae.
Cannae has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Potbelly has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Potbelly had 5 more articles in the media than Cannae. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Potbelly and 1 mentions for Cannae. Potbelly's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Cannae's score of 0.82 indicating that Potbelly is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Potbelly received 208 more outperform votes than Cannae when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.17% of users gave Potbelly an outperform vote while only 62.04% of users gave Cannae an outperform vote.
Summary
Potbelly beats Cannae on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PBPB) was last updated on 4/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
