FAT vs. LUB, BBQ, LOCO, NATH, PBPB, THCH, LVO, STKS, RRGB, and NDLS
Should you be buying FAT Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FAT Brands include Luby's (LUB), BBQ (BBQ), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Potbelly (PBPB), TH International (THCH), LiveOne (LVO), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), and Noodles & Company (NDLS).
Luby's (NYSE:LUB) and FAT Brands (NASDAQ:FAT) 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 community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Luby's has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FAT Brands.
FAT Brands received 27 more outperform votes than Luby's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.89% of users gave Luby's an outperform vote while only 61.31% of users gave FAT Brands an outperform vote.
Luby's has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FAT Brands has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FAT Brands has a consensus target price of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 179.33%. Given Luby's' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe FAT Brands is more favorable than Luby's.
41.9% of Luby's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.9% of FAT Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 24.6% of Luby's shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of FAT Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Luby's has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Luby's' net margin of -18.28%.
In the previous week, FAT Brands had 5 more articles in the media than Luby's. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for FAT Brands and 1 mentions for Luby's. Luby's' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat FAT Brands' score of -0.44 indicating that FAT Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Luby's and FAT Brands tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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