BJRI vs. RUTH, DENN, HABT, EAT, CAKE, BLMN, PZZA, CBRL, JACK, and DIN
Should you be buying BJ's Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BJ's Restaurants include Ruth's Hospitality Group (RUTH), Denny's (DENN), Habit Restaurants (HABT), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Jack in the Box (JACK), and Dine Brands Global (DIN).
BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) and Ruth's Hospitality Group (NASDAQ:RUTH) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
BJ's Restaurants presently has a consensus target price of $38.30, suggesting a potential upside of 12.22%. Given BJ's Restaurants' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe BJ's Restaurants is more favorable than Ruth's Hospitality Group.
BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 2.11, meaning that its stock price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ruth's Hospitality Group has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BJ's Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Ruth's Hospitality Group's score of 0.08 indicating that BJ's Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ruth's Hospitality Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BJ's Restaurants. Ruth's Hospitality Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BJ's Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ruth's Hospitality Group has a net margin of 7.66% compared to BJ's Restaurants' net margin of 1.80%. Ruth's Hospitality Group's return on equity of 32.00% beat BJ's Restaurants' return on equity.
100.0% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Ruth's Hospitality Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Ruth's Hospitality Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BJ's Restaurants received 113 more outperform votes than Ruth's Hospitality Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.07% of users gave Ruth's Hospitality Group an outperform vote while only 54.70% of users gave BJ's Restaurants an outperform vote.
Summary
BJ's Restaurants and Ruth's Hospitality Group tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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