TXRH vs. WING, YUMC, ARMK, YUM, DPZ, DRI, WEN, EAT, CAKE, and BLMN
Should you be buying Texas Roadhouse stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Texas Roadhouse include Wingstop (WING), Yum China (YUMC), Aramark (ARMK), Yum! Brands (YUM), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Wendy's (WEN), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), and Bloomin' Brands (BLMN).
Texas Roadhouse (NASDAQ:TXRH) and Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Wingstop has a net margin of 16.75% compared to Texas Roadhouse's net margin of 6.94%. Texas Roadhouse's return on equity of 28.85% beat Wingstop's return on equity.
Texas Roadhouse has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Wingstop has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wingstop had 1 more articles in the media than Texas Roadhouse. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Wingstop and 12 mentions for Texas Roadhouse. Texas Roadhouse's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Wingstop's score of 0.92 indicating that Texas Roadhouse is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Texas Roadhouse has higher revenue and earnings than Wingstop. Texas Roadhouse is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wingstop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Texas Roadhouse received 2 more outperform votes than Wingstop when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.22% of users gave Wingstop an outperform vote while only 53.51% of users gave Texas Roadhouse an outperform vote.
Texas Roadhouse presently has a consensus target price of $157.77, suggesting a potential downside of 6.05%. Wingstop has a consensus target price of $331.50, suggesting a potential downside of 13.62%. Given Texas Roadhouse's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Texas Roadhouse is more favorable than Wingstop.
94.8% of Texas Roadhouse shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Texas Roadhouse shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Wingstop shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Texas Roadhouse pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Wingstop pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Texas Roadhouse pays out 49.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wingstop pays out 31.3% 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.
Summary
Texas Roadhouse beats Wingstop on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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