CHUY vs. TACO, HABT, PZZA, CBRL, JACK, BJRI, DIN, TAST, BH, and RICK
Should you be buying Chuy's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chuy's include Del Taco Restaurants (TACO), Habit Restaurants (HABT), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Jack in the Box (JACK), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Biglari (BH), and RCI Hospitality (RICK).
Del Taco Restaurants (NASDAQ:TACO) and Chuy's (NASDAQ:CHUY) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
Chuy's has a consensus target price of $38.14, indicating a potential upside of 45.69%. Given Del Taco Restaurants' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chuy's is more favorable than Del Taco Restaurants.
In the previous week, Chuy's had 2 more articles in the media than Del Taco Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Chuy's and 0 mentions for Del Taco Restaurants. Del Taco Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Chuy's' score of 0.37 indicating that Chuy's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chuy's received 42 more outperform votes than Del Taco Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.84% of users gave Del Taco Restaurants an outperform vote while only 58.40% of users gave Chuy's an outperform vote.
Del Taco Restaurants has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chuy's has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
83.3% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Chuy's shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Chuy's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chuy's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Del Taco Restaurants. Chuy's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Del Taco Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chuy's has a net margin of 6.58% compared to Chuy's' net margin of 3.83%. Del Taco Restaurants' return on equity of 13.51% beat Chuy's' return on equity.
Summary
Chuy's beats Del Taco Restaurants on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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