Arcos Dorados (ARCO) Competitors

Arcos Dorados (NYSE:ARCO) and Main Street Capital (NYSE:MAIN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.

Do analysts recommend ARCO or MAIN?

Arcos Dorados presently has a consensus price target of $13.83, indicating a potential upside of 39.17%. Main Street Capital has a consensus price target of $47.67, indicating a potential downside of 2.20%. Given Arcos Dorados' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Arcos Dorados is more favorable than Main Street Capital.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Arcos Dorados	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Main Street Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of ARCO or MAIN?

55.9% of Arcos Dorados shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.3% of Main Street Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Main Street Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility and risk, ARCO or MAIN?

Arcos Dorados has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Main Street Capital has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, ARCO or MAIN?

Main Street Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Arcos Dorados. Main Street Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arcos Dorados, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Arcos Dorados	$4.33B	0.48	$181.27M	$0.81	12.23
Main Street Capital	$500.39M	8.32	$428.45M	$5.48	8.86

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ARCO or MAIN?

Main Street Capital received 126 more outperform votes than Arcos Dorados when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.90% of users gave Main Street Capital an outperform vote while only 55.24% of users gave Arcos Dorados an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Arcos Dorados	Outperform Votes 274 55.24%	Underperform Votes 222 44.76%
Main Street Capital	Outperform Votes 400 56.90%	Underperform Votes 303 43.10%

Is ARCO or MAIN more profitable?

Main Street Capital has a net margin of 89.11% compared to Arcos Dorados' net margin of 3.90%. Arcos Dorados' return on equity of 38.57% beat Main Street Capital's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Arcos Dorados	3.90%	38.57%	6.13%
Main Street Capital	89.11%	14.83%	7.88%

Is ARCO or MAIN a better dividend stock?

Arcos Dorados pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Main Street Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Arcos Dorados pays out 29.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Main Street Capital pays out 52.6% 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.

Does the media prefer ARCO or MAIN?

In the previous week, Main Street Capital had 5 more articles in the media than Arcos Dorados. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Main Street Capital and 4 mentions for Arcos Dorados. Arcos Dorados' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Main Street Capital's score of 0.58 indicating that Arcos Dorados is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Arcos Dorados	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Main Street Capital	2 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Arcos Dorados and Main Street Capital tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.