BLMN vs. EAT, PZZA, CAKE, CBRL, JACK, BJRI, DIN, ARCO, PLAY, and SG
Should you be buying Bloomin' Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bloomin' Brands include Brinker International (EAT), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Jack in the Box (JACK), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), and Sweetgreen (SG). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Brinker International (NYSE:EAT) and Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Brinker International presently has a consensus target price of $44.81, suggesting a potential downside of 8.23%. Bloomin' Brands has a consensus target price of $27.90, suggesting a potential upside of 3.60%. Given Brinker International's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bloomin' Brands is more favorable than Brinker International.
Brinker International received 127 more outperform votes than Bloomin' Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.72% of users gave Bloomin' Brands an outperform vote while only 59.16% of users gave Brinker International an outperform vote.
Bloomin' Brands has a net margin of 5.30% compared to Bloomin' Brands' net margin of 3.63%. Brinker International's return on equity of 73.67% beat Bloomin' Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Brinker International had 5 more articles in the media than Bloomin' Brands. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Brinker International and 14 mentions for Bloomin' Brands. Brinker International's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Bloomin' Brands' score of 0.41 indicating that Bloomin' Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brinker International has a beta of 2.46, suggesting that its share price is 146% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloomin' Brands has a beta of 2, suggesting that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bloomin' Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Brinker International. Bloomin' Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brinker International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bloomin' Brands beats Brinker International on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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