CAKE vs. BLMN, PZZA, CBRL, JACK, EAT, BJRI, DIN, TAST, PLAY, and ARCO
Should you be buying Cheesecake Factory stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cheesecake Factory include Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Jack in the Box (JACK), Brinker International (EAT), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), and Arcos Dorados (ARCO). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) and Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ:CAKE) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
Bloomin' Brands currently has a consensus target price of $27.30, suggesting a potential upside of 29.88%. Cheesecake Factory has a consensus target price of $39.58, suggesting a potential upside of 4.41%. Given Cheesecake Factory's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Bloomin' Brands is more favorable than Cheesecake Factory.
Cheesecake Factory has a net margin of 3.07% compared to Cheesecake Factory's net margin of 1.56%. Cheesecake Factory's return on equity of 65.73% beat Bloomin' Brands' return on equity.
Bloomin' Brands has a beta of 2.02, meaning that its stock price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cheesecake Factory has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bloomin' Brands received 41 more outperform votes than Cheesecake Factory when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.56% of users gave Bloomin' Brands an outperform vote while only 52.08% of users gave Cheesecake Factory an outperform vote.
94.5% of Cheesecake Factory shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Bloomin' Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of Cheesecake Factory shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bloomin' Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Cheesecake Factory. Cheesecake Factory is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bloomin' Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Cheesecake Factory had 5 more articles in the media than Bloomin' Brands. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Cheesecake Factory and 14 mentions for Bloomin' Brands. Cheesecake Factory's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Bloomin' Brands' score of 0.48 indicating that Bloomin' Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bloomin' Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Cheesecake Factory pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Bloomin' Brands pays out 150.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cheesecake Factory pays out 49.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bloomin' Brands has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Cheesecake Factory has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Summary
Bloomin' Brands beats Cheesecake Factory on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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