SG vs. YUMC, TXRH, WING, CAVA, ARMK, MAIN, EAT, PLAY, ARCO, and CAKE
Should you be buying Sweetgreen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sweetgreen include Yum China (YUMC), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wingstop (WING), CAVA Group (CAVA), Aramark (ARMK), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Brinker International (EAT), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), and Cheesecake Factory (CAKE). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Sweetgreen (NYSE:SG) and Yum China (NYSE:YUMC) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Sweetgreen has a beta of 2.34, indicating that its stock price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yum China has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yum China has higher revenue and earnings than Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yum China, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sweetgreen had 9 more articles in the media than Yum China. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Sweetgreen and 5 mentions for Yum China. Yum China's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Sweetgreen's score of 0.86 indicating that Yum China is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
95.8% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of Yum China shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.5% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yum China shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Yum China received 372 more outperform votes than Sweetgreen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.19% of users gave Yum China an outperform vote while only 42.50% of users gave Sweetgreen an outperform vote.
Yum China has a net margin of 7.49% compared to Sweetgreen's net margin of -17.15%. Yum China's return on equity of 11.90% beat Sweetgreen's return on equity.
Sweetgreen currently has a consensus target price of $27.25, indicating a potential downside of 15.69%. Yum China has a consensus target price of $54.65, indicating a potential upside of 55.34%. Given Yum China's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Yum China is more favorable than Sweetgreen.
Summary
Yum China beats Sweetgreen on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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