DIN vs. CBRL, PZZA, BLMN, BJRI, JACK, BH, RICK, DENN, NATH, and RRGB
Should you be buying Dine Brands Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dine Brands Global 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), Denny's (DENN), Nathan's Famous (NATH), and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Dine Brands Global vs.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ:CBRL) and Dine Brands Global (NYSE:DIN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dine Brands Global has a beta of 1.75, meaning that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dine Brands Global has a net margin of 11.31% 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 Dine Brands Global's return on equity.
Dine Brands Global has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. Dine Brands Global 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.
Dine Brands Global received 266 more outperform votes than Cracker Barrel Old Country Store when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.72% of users gave Dine Brands Global an outperform vote while only 48.26% of users gave Cracker Barrel Old Country Store an outperform vote.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store presently has a consensus price target of $57.63, suggesting a potential downside of 11.32%. Dine Brands Global has a consensus price target of $41.29, suggesting a potential upside of 35.94%. Given Dine Brands Global's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Dine Brands Global is more favorable than Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.
96.0% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Dine Brands Global shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Dine Brands Global pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store pays out 55.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dine Brands Global pays out 33.9% 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. Dine Brands Global is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store had 3 more articles in the media than Dine Brands Global. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and 8 mentions for Dine Brands Global. Dine Brands Global's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's score of 0.07 indicating that Dine Brands Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dine Brands Global beats Cracker Barrel Old Country Store on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:DIN) was last updated on 2/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff