NDLS vs. FRGI, DENN, LOCO, GENK, NATH, PBPB, LVO, STKS, RRGB, and THCH
Should you be buying Noodles & Company stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Noodles & Company include Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), Denny's (DENN), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Potbelly (PBPB), LiveOne (LVO), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), and TH International (THCH). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Noodles & Company (NASDAQ:NDLS) and Fiesta Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:FRGI) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
65.7% of Noodles & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Fiesta Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Noodles & Company shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Fiesta Restaurant Group shares are owned by company 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.
Fiesta Restaurant Group has a net margin of -1.25% compared to Noodles & Company's net margin of -2.58%. Fiesta Restaurant Group's return on equity of 0.82% beat Noodles & Company's return on equity.
Fiesta Restaurant Group received 63 more outperform votes than Noodles & Company when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.88% of users gave Fiesta Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 56.47% of users gave Noodles & Company an outperform vote.
Noodles & Company presently has a consensus price target of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 70.73%. Given Noodles & Company's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Noodles & Company is more favorable than Fiesta Restaurant Group.
Noodles & Company has higher revenue and earnings than Fiesta Restaurant Group. Fiesta Restaurant Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Noodles & Company, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Noodles & Company has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fiesta Restaurant Group has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Noodles & Company had 3 more articles in the media than Fiesta Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Noodles & Company and 0 mentions for Fiesta Restaurant Group. Fiesta Restaurant Group's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Noodles & Company's score of 0.62 indicating that Fiesta Restaurant Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fiesta Restaurant Group beats Noodles & Company on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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