RICK vs. TAST, PBPB, NATH, LVO, UTI, AMCX, VTRU, NRDY, JOUT, and FUBO
Should you be buying RCI Hospitality stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RCI Hospitality include Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Potbelly (PBPB), Nathan's Famous (NATH), LiveOne (LVO), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), AMC Networks (AMCX), Vitru (VTRU), Nerdy (NRDY), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), and fuboTV (FUBO).
Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) and RCI Hospitality (NASDAQ:RICK) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Carrols Restaurant Group has a beta of 2.5, meaning that its share price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RCI Hospitality has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RCI Hospitality has a net margin of 8.81% compared to RCI Hospitality's net margin of 1.80%. RCI Hospitality's return on equity of 19.41% beat Carrols Restaurant Group's return on equity.
Carrols Restaurant Group pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. RCI Hospitality pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Carrols Restaurant Group pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RCI Hospitality pays out 8.6% 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. RCI Hospitality has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Carrols Restaurant Group currently has a consensus price target of $8.87, suggesting a potential downside of 6.86%. RCI Hospitality has a consensus price target of $120.00, suggesting a potential upside of 136.41%. Given Carrols Restaurant Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RCI Hospitality is more favorable than Carrols Restaurant Group.
86.8% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.8% of RCI Hospitality shares are held by institutional investors. 33.1% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of RCI Hospitality shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Carrols Restaurant Group had 3 more articles in the media than RCI Hospitality. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Carrols Restaurant Group and 0 mentions for RCI Hospitality. Carrols Restaurant Group's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat RCI Hospitality's score of 0.81 indicating that RCI Hospitality is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carrols Restaurant Group has higher revenue and earnings than RCI Hospitality. RCI Hospitality is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carrols Restaurant Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carrols Restaurant Group received 27 more outperform votes than RCI Hospitality when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.71% of users gave RCI Hospitality an outperform vote while only 64.24% of users gave Carrols Restaurant Group an outperform vote.
Summary
RCI Hospitality beats Carrols Restaurant Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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