DENN vs. BH, CHUY, TAST, NATH, DIN, BJRI, NDLS, JACK, CBRL, and PBPB
Should you be buying Denny's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Denny's include Biglari (BH), Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Dine Brands Global (DIN), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Noodles & Company (NDLS), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), and Potbelly (PBPB). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Biglari (NYSE:BH) and Denny's (NASDAQ:DENN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
Biglari has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Denny's. Biglari is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Denny's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Biglari has a net margin of 15.04% compared to Biglari's net margin of 4.30%. Denny's' return on equity of 9.18% beat Biglari's return on equity.
Denny's has a consensus target price of $11.75, suggesting a potential upside of 43.47%. Given Biglari's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Denny's is more favorable than Biglari.
Biglari has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Denny's has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its share price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
74.3% of Biglari shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of Denny's shares are owned by institutional investors. 71.4% of Biglari shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Denny's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Denny's had 25 more articles in the media than Biglari. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Denny's and 5 mentions for Biglari. Biglari's average media sentiment score of 0.02 beat Denny's' score of -0.08 indicating that Denny's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Denny's received 104 more outperform votes than Biglari when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.12% of users gave Biglari an outperform vote while only 61.51% of users gave Denny's an outperform vote.
Summary
Denny's beats Biglari on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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