EAT vs. BLMN, CAKE, PZZA, CBRL, JACK, BJRI, ARCO, PLAY, SG, and KRUS
Should you be buying Brinker International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brinker International include Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Jack in the Box (JACK), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Sweetgreen (SG), and Kura Sushi USA (KRUS). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) and Brinker International (NYSE:EAT) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
Bloomin' Brands currently has a consensus price target of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 29.78%. Brinker International has a consensus price target of $48.29, suggesting a potential downside of 24.86%. Given Brinker International's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bloomin' Brands is more favorable than Brinker International.
Brinker International received 129 more outperform votes than Bloomin' Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.62% of users gave Bloomin' Brands an outperform vote while only 59.17% of users gave Brinker International an outperform vote.
Bloomin' Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Brinker International. Brinker International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bloomin' Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bloomin' Brands has a beta of 2.02, suggesting that its share price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brinker International has a beta of 2.42, suggesting that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brinker International has a net margin of 3.55% compared to Brinker International's net margin of 1.56%. Brinker International's return on equity of 65.73% beat Bloomin' Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Brinker International had 5 more articles in the media than Bloomin' Brands. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Brinker International and 8 mentions for Bloomin' Brands. Brinker International's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Bloomin' Brands' score of 0.93 indicating that Bloomin' Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Brinker International beats Bloomin' Brands on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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