DIN vs. TAST, BJRI, CHUY, BH, DENN, NATH, JACK, CBRL, PZZA, and CAKE
Should you be buying Dine Brands Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dine Brands Global include Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Chuy's (CHUY), Biglari (BH), Denny's (DENN), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Papa John's International (PZZA), and Cheesecake Factory (CAKE). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) and Dine Brands Global (NYSE:DIN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Carrols Restaurant Group has a beta of 2.48, meaning that its stock price is 148% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dine Brands Global has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dine Brands Global received 331 more outperform votes than Carrols Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.26% of users gave Dine Brands Global an outperform vote while only 64.55% of users gave Carrols Restaurant Group an outperform vote.
Dine Brands Global has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Carrols Restaurant Group. Dine Brands Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carrols Restaurant Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carrols Restaurant Group pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Dine Brands Global pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Carrols Restaurant Group pays out 14.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dine Brands Global pays out 36.3% 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. Dine Brands Global has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Dine Brands Global is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Dine Brands Global had 4 more articles in the media than Carrols Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Dine Brands Global and 3 mentions for Carrols Restaurant Group. Dine Brands Global's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Carrols Restaurant Group's score of -0.08 indicating that Carrols Restaurant Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Carrols Restaurant Group presently has a consensus target price of $9.55, indicating a potential upside of 0.10%. Dine Brands Global has a consensus target price of $58.57, indicating a potential upside of 52.95%. Given Carrols Restaurant Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dine Brands Global is more favorable than Carrols Restaurant Group.
86.8% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.1% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dine Brands Global has a net margin of 10.59% compared to Dine Brands Global's net margin of 1.94%. Dine Brands Global's return on equity of 22.38% beat Carrols Restaurant Group's return on equity.
Summary
Dine Brands Global beats Carrols Restaurant Group on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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