BJRI vs. DIN, TAST, CHUY, BH, DENN, JACK, NATH, CBRL, CAKE, and PZZA
Should you be buying BJ's Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BJ's Restaurants include Dine Brands Global (DIN), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Chuy's (CHUY), Biglari (BH), Denny's (DENN), Jack in the Box (JACK), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), and Papa John's International (PZZA). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) and Dine Brands Global (NYSE:DIN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
BJ's Restaurants currently has a consensus target price of $37.30, indicating a potential upside of 11.54%. Dine Brands Global has a consensus target price of $59.43, indicating a potential upside of 31.57%. Given Dine Brands Global's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dine Brands Global is more favorable than BJ's Restaurants.
Dine Brands Global received 120 more outperform votes than BJ's Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.35% of users gave Dine Brands Global an outperform vote while only 54.66% of users gave BJ's Restaurants an outperform vote.
Dine Brands Global has a net margin of 11.69% compared to BJ's Restaurants' net margin of 1.47%. BJ's Restaurants' return on equity of 5.45% beat Dine Brands Global's return on equity.
In the previous week, Dine Brands Global had 3 more articles in the media than BJ's Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Dine Brands Global and 7 mentions for BJ's Restaurants. BJ's Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Dine Brands Global's score of 0.53 indicating that BJ's Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.9% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Dine Brands Global shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BJ's Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Dine Brands Global pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. BJ's Restaurants pays out 62.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dine Brands Global pays out 32.7% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Dine Brands Global has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BJ's Restaurants. Dine Brands Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BJ's Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dine Brands Global has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Dine Brands Global beats BJ's Restaurants on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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