Compare Stocks: NATH, BJRI, CBRL, and WEN

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$59.87 +0.6%	$63.23	$28.46 ▼ $74.60	$1.27B	1.33	423,475 shs	389,318 shs
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$57.46 +3.8%	$53.91	$24.85 ▼ $60.26	$1.28B	1.21	1.18 million shs	1.11 million shs
NATH Nathan's Famous	$101.77 +0.0%	$98.50	$88.67 ▼ $111.39	$417.05M	0.25	33,960 shs	22,351 shs
WEN Wendy's	$6.23 +0.2%	$7.55	$5.94 ▼ $10.12	$1.19B	0.4	11.28 million shs	5.06 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	+0.37%	+0.49%	-2.52%	-4.37%	+91.45%
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	-1.88%	+7.00%	+4.89%	+9.76%	+31.89%
NATH Nathan's Famous	+0.03%	+0.35%	+3.51%	+1.22%	-3.70%
WEN Wendy's	+1.80%	-0.48%	-18.27%	-17.62%	-30.73%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$59.87 +0.6%	$63.23	$28.46 ▼ $74.60	$1.27B	1.33	423,475 shs	389,318 shs
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$57.46 +3.8%	$53.91	$24.85 ▼ $60.26	$1.28B	1.21	1.18 million shs	1.11 million shs
NATH Nathan's Famous	$101.77 +0.0%	$98.50	$88.67 ▼ $111.39	$417.05M	0.25	33,960 shs	22,351 shs
WEN Wendy's	$6.23 +0.2%	$7.55	$5.94 ▼ $10.12	$1.19B	0.4	11.28 million shs	5.06 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	+0.37%	+0.49%	-2.52%	-4.37%	+91.45%
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	-1.88%	+7.00%	+4.89%	+9.76%	+31.89%
NATH Nathan's Famous	+0.03%	+0.35%	+3.51%	+1.22%	-3.70%
WEN Wendy's	+1.80%	-0.48%	-18.27%	-17.62%	-30.73%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	2.27	Hold	$57.13	-5.41% Downside
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	2.33	Hold	$50.86	-12.79% Downside
NATH Nathan's Famous	3.00	Buy	N/A	N/A
WEN Wendy's	1.85	Reduce	$7.82	25.21% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest NATH, BJRI, CBRL, and WEN Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
10/2/2026	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C+) ➝ Buy (B-)
10/2/2026	CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Hold (C) ➝ Hold (C-)
10/1/2026	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Neutral ➝ Outperform	$74.00 ➝ $76.00
9/25/2026	CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Sell	$42.00 ➝ $44.00
9/24/2026	CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Underperform	$48.00
9/21/2026	CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C-) ➝ Hold (C)
9/21/2026	CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$37.00 ➝ $46.00
9/18/2026	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy (B-) ➝ Hold (C+)
9/15/2026	WEN Wendy's	Guggenheim Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Neutral
9/15/2026	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Strong-Buy ➝ Hold
9/4/2026	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C+) ➝ Buy (B-)

(Data available from 10/9/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$1.40B	0.92	$6.19 per share	9.75	$17.33 per share	3.48
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$3.32B	0.39	$7.24 per share	8.06	$21.40 per share	2.73
NATH Nathan's Famous	$169.13M	2.47	$5.13 per share	19.82	($3.47) per share	-29.32
WEN Wendy's	$2.20B	0.54	$1.84 per share	3.39	$0.62 per share	10.07

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$48.81M	$1.87	32.29	22.45	1.79	2.86%	12.93%	4.79%	10/29/2026 (Estimated)
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$31.67M	$1.40	41.65	30.69	1.44	0.95%	4.01%	0.86%	12/8/2026 (Estimated)
NATH Nathan's Famous	$20.02M	$4.83	21.07	N/A	N/A	11.78%	-187.25%	34.31%	11/6/2026 (Estimated)
WEN Wendy's	$165.07M	$0.66	9.46	12.74	0.62	5.72%	115.31%	2.70%	11/6/2026 (Estimated)

Latest NATH, BJRI, CBRL, and WEN Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
11/6/2026	Q3 2026	WEN Wendy's	$0.10	N/A	N/A	N/A	$533.16 million	N/A
10/29/2026	Q3 2026	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$0.1605	N/A	N/A	N/A	$344.77 million	N/A
9/23/2026	Q4 2026	CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$0.1737	$0.99	+$0.8163	$0.54	$834.57 million	$849.34 million
8/7/2026	Q1 2027	NATH Nathan's Famous	N/A	$2.14	N/A	$2.14	N/A	$54.06 million
8/7/2026	Q2 2026	WEN Wendy's	$0.1629	$0.18	+$0.0171	$0.17	$557.14 million	$570.57 million
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$0.8960	$0.94	+$0.0440	$0.86	$377.07 million	$388.89 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$1.00	1.71%	-15.34%	71.43%	N/A
NATH Nathan's Famous	$2.00	1.97%	+26.30%	41.41%	N/A
WEN Wendy's	$0.28	4.48%	+18.23%	42.42%	N/A

Latest NATH, BJRI, CBRL, and WEN Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
9/18/2026	CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	quarterly	$0.25	2.1%	10/16/2026	10/16/2026	11/12/2026
8/7/2026	WEN Wendy's	quarterly	$0.07	3.39%	9/1/2026	9/1/2026	9/15/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	0.11	0.29	0.22
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	0.71	0.58	0.24
NATH Nathan's Famous	N/A	2.45	2.39
WEN Wendy's	27.95	1.90	1.88

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	99.95%
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	96.01%
NATH Nathan's Famous	66.54%
WEN Wendy's	85.96%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	2.40%
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	1.40%
NATH Nathan's Famous	30.70%
WEN Wendy's	17.10%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	22,000	21.27 million	20.76 million	Optionable
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	74,500	22.35 million	22.04 million	Optionable
NATH Nathan's Famous	129	4.10 million	2.84 million	Not Optionable
WEN Wendy's	14,900	190.67 million	158.07 million	Optionable

NATH, BJRI, CBRL, and WEN Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Chicago woman says eating a Wendy’s cheeseburger led to nearly $100,000 in medical bills and she’s suing. How other fast food suits have fared

3 hours ago | msn.com

Wendy’s operator files for bankruptcy after running 314 locations across the US

October 9 at 9:09 AM | msn.com

6 Ways Burger King Outshines McDonald's And Wendy's

October 8 at 12:50 AM | yahoo.com

Open 46 years, another of Wendy's oldest Jacksonville locations close

October 8 at 12:50 AM | usatoday.com

Wendy's franchisee owing $147M files bankruptcy as beef costs surge

October 8 at 7:49 PM | msn.com

The Wendy's Company to Report Third Quarter 2026 Results on November 5

October 8 at 4:30 PM | prnewswire.com

How to order Wendy's secret menu barnyard burger

October 8 at 9:42 AM | msn.com

Wendy’s turns off lights & closes diner for good as tables & menus packed away

October 7 at 2:00 PM | the-sun.comT

Copycat Wendy's chili recipe

October 7 at 2:00 PM | msn.com

Meritage fights Wendy’s attempt to enforce termination of franchise rights

October 7 at 2:00 PM | msn.com

Latest Wendy's in Tallahassee closes its doors for good

October 6 at 12:38 AM | msn.com

Wendy’s is facing more store closures: See an updated list of shuttered locations from franchise bankruptcy

October 6 at 12:38 AM | finance.yahoo.com

Burger King Vs Wendy's: Which Serves The Healthier Bacon Cheeseburger?

October 5, 2026 | yahoo.com

Wendy's is facing more store closures: See an updated list of shuttered locations from franchise bankruptcy

October 5, 2026 | fastcompany.comF

Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) Reaches New 52-Week Low - Time to Sell?

October 5, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) Sets New 12-Month Low - Time to Sell?

October 5, 2026 | marketbeat.com

The Sad Reason Wendy's Got Rid Of Its Iconic Sunrooms

October 5, 2026 | yahoo.com

McDonald's Vs Wendy's: Which Has The Most Affordable Fast Food Meal Combo?

October 4, 2026 | yahoo.com

This forgotten '90s menu item took Wendy's into southern diner territory

October 4, 2026 | msn.com

Wendy's franchisee will close at least 30 restaurants by Oct. 16

October 4, 2026 | msn.com

The Reason Wendy's Frostys Are So Delicious

October 4, 2026 | yahoo.com

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NATH, BJRI, CBRL, and WEN Company Descriptions

BJ's Restaurants NASDAQ:BJRI

$59.87 +0.33 (+0.55%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$59.84 -0.03 (-0.05%)

As of 04:38 PM Eastern

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. owns and operates casual dining restaurants in the United States. Its restaurants offer pizzas, craft and other beers, appetizers, entrées, pastas, sandwiches, specialty salads, and desserts under brand name Pizookie. The company was formerly known as Chicago Pizza & Brewery, Inc. and changed its name to BJ's Restaurants, Inc. in August 2004. BJ's Restaurants, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is based in Huntington Beach, California.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store NASDAQ:CBRL

$57.46 +2.12 (+3.83%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$57.35 -0.11 (-0.19%)

As of 04:56 PM Eastern

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. develops and operates the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store concept in the United States. Its Cracker Barrel stores consist of restaurants with a gift shop. The company's restaurants serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, as well as dine-in, pick-up, and delivery services. Its gift shop offers various decorative and functional items, such as rocking chairs, seasonal gifts, apparel, toys, food, cookware, and various other gift items, as well as various candies, preserves, and other food items. The company was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Lebanon, Tennessee.

Nathan's Famous NASDAQ:NATH

$101.77 +0.02 (+0.02%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

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$101.76 -0.02 (-0.01%)

As of 04:10 PM Eastern

Nathan's Famous, Inc. engages in the operation of franchised fast-food units. It is involved in the licensing, wholesaling, and retailing of products marketed under the Nathan's Famous brand. The firm operates through the following business segments: Branded Product Program, Product Licensing, Restaurant Operations, and Corporate. The Branded Product Program segment markets and sells hot dog products. The Product Licensing segment is composed of royalties from licensing a variety of Nathan’s Famous products such as hotdogs, sausage and corned beef products, frozen French fries, and additional products through retail grocery channels and club stores. The Restaurant Operations segment deals with the sale of products at company-owned restaurants and fees and royalties from franchised restaurants. The Corporate segment includes administrative expenses such as executive management, finance, information technology, legal, insurance, corporate office costs, corporate incentive compensation, and compliance costs. The company was founded by Nathan Handwerker in 1916 and is headquartered in Jericho, NY.

Wendy's NASDAQ:WEN

$6.23 +0.01 (+0.16%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$6.24 +0.01 (+0.16%)

As of 05:50 PM Eastern

The Wendy’s Co. engages in operating, developing, and franchising a system of quick-service restaurants. It operates through the following segments: Wendy’s U.S., Wendy’s International, and Global Real Estate and Development. The Wendy’s U.S. segment includes the operation and franchising of Wendy’s restaurants in the U.S. The Wendy’s International segment is involved in the operation and franchising of Wendy’s restaurants in countries and territories other than the U.S. The Global Real Estate and Development segment focuses on real estate activity for owned sites and sites leased from third parties. The company was founded by R. David Thomas on November 15, 1969 and is headquartered in Dublin, OH.

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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Latest NATH, BJRI, CBRL, and WEN Analyst Ratings

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Latest NATH, BJRI, CBRL, and WEN Earnings

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Latest NATH, BJRI, CBRL, and WEN Dividends

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NATH, BJRI, CBRL, and WEN Headlines

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