KRUS vs. CBRL, FWRG, JACK, BJRI, PTLO, DIN, CAKE, TAST, CHUY, and PZZA
Should you be buying Kura Sushi USA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kura Sushi USA include Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Jack in the Box (JACK), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Portillo's (PTLO), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Chuy's (CHUY), and Papa John's International (PZZA). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ:CBRL) and Kura Sushi USA (NASDAQ:KRUS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store received 297 more outperform votes than Kura Sushi USA when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.79% of users gave Kura Sushi USA an outperform vote while only 50.13% of users gave Cracker Barrel Old Country Store an outperform vote.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store currently has a consensus price target of $75.43, indicating a potential upside of 32.42%. Kura Sushi USA has a consensus price target of $109.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.90%. Given Kura Sushi USA's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Cracker Barrel Old Country Store is more favorable than Kura Sushi USA.
96.0% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Kura Sushi USA shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Kura Sushi USA shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has higher revenue and earnings than Kura Sushi USA. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kura Sushi USA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has a net margin of 2.43% compared to Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's net margin of 0.73%. Kura Sushi USA's return on equity of 23.13% beat Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store had 4 more articles in the media than Kura Sushi USA. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and 6 mentions for Kura Sushi USA. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Kura Sushi USA's score of 0.46 indicating that Kura Sushi USA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kura Sushi USA has a beta of 1.98, suggesting that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store beats Kura Sushi USA on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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