TAST vs. TACO, HABT, CAKE, BLMN, PZZA, CBRL, JACK, BJRI, DIN, and CHUY
Should you be buying Carrols Restaurant Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carrols Restaurant Group include Del Taco Restaurants (TACO), Habit Restaurants (HABT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Jack in the Box (JACK), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Dine Brands Global (DIN), and Chuy's (CHUY). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) and Del Taco Restaurants (NASDAQ:TACO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
Carrols Restaurant Group presently has a consensus target price of $9.55, indicating a potential upside of 0.10%. Given Carrols Restaurant Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Carrols Restaurant Group is more favorable than Del Taco Restaurants.
Carrols Restaurant Group has higher revenue and earnings than Del Taco Restaurants. Carrols Restaurant Group 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.
86.8% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. 33.1% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Carrols Restaurant Group had 1 more articles in the media than Del Taco Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Carrols Restaurant Group and 0 mentions for Del Taco Restaurants. Del Taco Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Carrols Restaurant Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Del Taco Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carrols Restaurant Group has a beta of 2.48, suggesting that its stock price is 148% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Del Taco Restaurants has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carrols Restaurant Group pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Del Taco Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Carrols Restaurant Group pays out 14.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Del Taco Restaurants pays out 30.2% 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.
Del Taco Restaurants has a net margin of 3.83% compared to Carrols Restaurant Group's net margin of 1.94%. Carrols Restaurant Group's return on equity of 22.38% beat Del Taco Restaurants' return on equity.
Del Taco Restaurants received 100 more outperform votes than Carrols Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.63% of users gave Carrols Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 58.84% of users gave Del Taco Restaurants an outperform vote.
Summary
Carrols Restaurant Group beats Del Taco Restaurants on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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