RCI Hospitality (RICK) Competitors

RCI Hospitality (NASDAQ:RICK) and Del Taco Restaurants (NASDAQ:TACO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.

Do analysts rate RICK or TACO?

RCI Hospitality currently has a consensus price target of $98.00, suggesting a potential upside of 100.49%. Given RCI Hospitality's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe RCI Hospitality is more favorable than Del Taco Restaurants.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
RCI Hospitality	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Del Taco Restaurants	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the media refer more to RICK or TACO?

In the previous week, Del Taco Restaurants had 6 more articles in the media than RCI Hospitality. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Del Taco Restaurants and 0 mentions for RCI Hospitality. RCI Hospitality's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Del Taco Restaurants' score of 0.37 indicating that RCI Hospitality is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
RCI Hospitality	Positive
Del Taco Restaurants	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in RICK or TACO?

Del Taco Restaurants received 123 more outperform votes than RCI Hospitality when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.16% of users gave RCI Hospitality an outperform vote while only 57.06% of users gave Del Taco Restaurants an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
RCI Hospitality	Outperform Votes 273 65.16%	Underperform Votes 146 34.84%
Del Taco Restaurants	Outperform Votes 396 57.06%	Underperform Votes 298 42.94%

Is RICK or TACO more profitable?

Del Taco Restaurants has a net margin of 3.83% compared to RCI Hospitality's net margin of 1.67%. Del Taco Restaurants' return on equity of 9.43% beat RCI Hospitality's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
RCI Hospitality	1.67%	1.76%	0.81%
Del Taco Restaurants	3.83%	9.43%	2.73%

Is RICK or TACO a better dividend stock?

RCI Hospitality pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Del Taco Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. RCI Hospitality pays out 53.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Del Taco Restaurants pays out 30.2% 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. Del Taco Restaurants is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has better valuation & earnings, RICK or TACO?

RCI Hospitality has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Del Taco Restaurants. Del Taco Restaurants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RCI Hospitality, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
RCI Hospitality	$293.79M	1.50	$29.25M	$0.52	94.00
Del Taco Restaurants	$491.88M	0.93	-$89.74M	$0.53	23.60

Which has more volatility and risk, RICK or TACO?

RCI Hospitality has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Del Taco Restaurants has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in RICK or TACO?

53.8% of RCI Hospitality shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. 9.0% of RCI Hospitality shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Del Taco Restaurants beats RCI Hospitality on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.