RICK vs. TACO, PBPB, FRGI, PZZA, JACK, CBRL, BJRI, DIN, TAST, and CHUY
Should you be buying RCI Hospitality stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RCI Hospitality include Del Taco Restaurants (TACO), Potbelly (PBPB), Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), Papa John's International (PZZA), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), and Chuy's (CHUY).
Del Taco Restaurants (NASDAQ:TACO) and RCI Hospitality (NASDAQ:RICK) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
83.3% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.8% of RCI Hospitality shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of RCI Hospitality shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Del Taco Restaurants received 130 more outperform votes than RCI Hospitality when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.72% of users gave RCI Hospitality an outperform vote while only 58.93% of users gave Del Taco Restaurants an outperform vote.
In the previous week, RCI Hospitality had 7 more articles in the media than Del Taco Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for RCI Hospitality and 0 mentions for Del Taco Restaurants. Del Taco Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat RCI Hospitality's score of 0.37 indicating that RCI Hospitality is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RCI Hospitality has a consensus price target of $111.50, indicating a potential upside of 132.44%. Given Del Taco Restaurants' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe RCI Hospitality is more favorable than Del Taco Restaurants.
RCI Hospitality has a net margin of 6.46% compared to RCI Hospitality's net margin of 3.83%. RCI Hospitality's return on equity of 9.43% beat Del Taco Restaurants' return on equity.
Del Taco Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. RCI Hospitality pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Del Taco Restaurants pays out 30.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RCI Hospitality pays out 11.8% 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. RCI Hospitality has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
RCI Hospitality has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Del Taco Restaurants. RCI Hospitality 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.
Del Taco Restaurants has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RCI Hospitality has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
RCI Hospitality beats Del Taco Restaurants on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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