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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$33.75 -0.9%	$34.47	$21.64 ▼ $38.76	$789.18M	2.12	381,229 shs	283,073 shs
DENN Denny's	$8.15 +2.0%	$8.60	$7.82 ▼ $12.53	$423.96M	1.94	502,195 shs	602,255 shs
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$10.49 -0.8%	$8.99	$8.11 ▼ $11.99	$326.24M	1.44	296,829 shs	344,351 shs
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	$53.76 +0.7%	$58.96	$31.65 ▼ $69.82	$2.17B	2.08	1.13 million shs	615,309 shs
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	$9.54	$9.50	$4.29 ▼ $9.55	$547.45M	2.48	874,742 shs	309,154 shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	+2.22%	+3.91%	-1.28%	-5.55%	+11.06%
DENN Denny's	-1.96%	-0.87%	-7.74%	-22.95%	-24.05%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	+2.13%	+22.91%	+15.39%	+14.52%	+12.93%
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	+1.48%	+1.81%	-15.22%	-10.19%	+51.30%
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	+0.10%	+0.21%	+0.63%	+1.17%	+118.81%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	4.8062 of 5 stars	3.2	3.0	1.7	2.9	3.7	2.5	2.5
DENN Denny's	3.2977 of 5 stars	3.3	2.0	0.0	0.0	2.4	2.5	2.5
LOCO El Pollo Loco	3.186 of 5 stars	2.0	2.0	0.0	1.2	2.5	1.7	2.5
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	4.6784 of 5 stars	4.3	1.0	1.7	0.8	1.9	2.5	3.1
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	2.9538 of 5 stars	1.0	4.0	0.8	1.8	2.0	3.3	1.3

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	2.33	Hold	$38.30	13.48% Upside
DENN Denny's	2.50	Moderate Buy	$11.42	40.08% Upside
LOCO El Pollo Loco	2.00	Hold	$12.00	14.39% Upside
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	2.50	Moderate Buy	$69.21	28.75% Upside
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	2.00	Hold	$8.87	-7.06% Downside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest BJRI, DENN, LOCO, PLAY, and TAST Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
5/3/2024	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	Benchmark Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$41.00 ➝ $45.00
5/3/2024	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Underweight ➝ Underweight	$33.00 ➝ $36.00
5/3/2024	LOCO El Pollo Loco	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$10.00 ➝ $12.00
5/1/2024	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$40.00 ➝ $40.00
5/1/2024	DENN Denny's	Benchmark Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$15.00
5/1/2024	DENN Denny's	Oppenheimer Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$12.00 ➝ $11.00
4/26/2024	DENN Denny's	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$10.50 ➝ $9.50
4/4/2024	PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight ➝ Neutral	$50.00 ➝ $71.00
4/3/2024	PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$60.00 ➝ $75.00
4/3/2024	PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$75.00 ➝ $78.00
4/3/2024	PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$60.00 ➝ $66.00

(Data available from 5/10/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$1.33B	0.59	$3.81 per share	8.85	$15.77 per share	2.14
DENN Denny's	$456.43M	0.93	$0.91 per share	8.96	($1.18) per share	-6.91
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$470.29M	0.69	$1.27 per share	8.25	$7.61 per share	1.38
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	$2.21B	0.98	$9.25 per share	5.81	$6.25 per share	8.60
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	$1.88B	0.29	$2.02 per share	4.73	$3.40 per share	2.81

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	$19.66M	$1.00	33.75	21.50	2.01	1.80%	6.51%	2.29%	7/25/2024 (Estimated)
DENN Denny's	$19.94M	$0.43	18.95	11.99	1.50	5.27%	-63.27%	6.66%	8/6/2024 (Estimated)
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$25.55M	$0.81	12.95	14.99	N/A	5.64%	10.13%	4.44%	8/1/2024 (Estimated)
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	$126.90M	$2.81	19.13	11.32	N/A	5.76%	53.96%	4.12%	6/4/2024 (Estimated)
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	$33.80M	$0.52	18.35	∞	N/A	1.80%	19.41%	2.08%	N/A

Latest BJRI, DENN, LOCO, PLAY, and TAST Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/2/2024	Q1 2024	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$0.15	$0.32	+$0.17	$0.32	$335.35 million	$337.33 million
5/2/2024	Q1 2024	LOCO El Pollo Loco	$0.14	$0.22	+$0.08	$0.25	$111.09 million	$116.15 million
4/30/2024	Q1 2024	DENN Denny's	$0.14	$0.11	-$0.03	$0.13	$115.17 million	$109.97 million
4/2/2024	Q4 2024	PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	$1.07	$1.03	-$0.04	$1.18	$603.41 million	$599.10 million
3/8/2024	Q4 2023	TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	$0.05	$0.10	+$0.05	$0.12	$470.41 million	$470.36 million
3/7/2024	Q4 2023	LOCO El Pollo Loco	$0.16	$0.16	N/A	$0.18	$109.07 million	$112.20 million
2/15/2024	Q4 2023	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$0.27	$0.34	+$0.07	$0.34	$331.03 million	$323.64 million
2/13/2024	Q4 2023	DENN Denny's	$0.17	$0.14	-$0.03	$0.23	$115.67 million	$115.40 million

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$0.52	1.54%	N/A	52.00%	N/A
DENN Denny's	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
LOCO El Pollo Loco	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	$0.64	1.19%	N/A	22.78%	N/A
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	$0.08	0.84%	N/A	15.38%	N/A

Latest BJRI, DENN, LOCO, PLAY, and TAST Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
2/22/2024	TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	Quarterly	$0.02	0.85%	3/8/2024	3/11/2024	4/5/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	0.15	0.03	0.35
DENN Denny's	N/A	0.38	0.36
LOCO El Pollo Loco	0.34	0.11	0.32
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	5.11	0.32	0.23
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	2.28	0.49	0.41

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	99.95%
DENN Denny's	85.07%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	81.28%
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	91.45%
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	86.80%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	4.20%
DENN Denny's	4.20%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	1.90%
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	1.60%
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	33.10%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	21,000	23.38 million	22.24 million	Optionable
DENN Denny's	3,500	52.02 million	49.83 million	Optionable
LOCO El Pollo Loco	4,362	31.10 million	30.59 million	Optionable
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	23,258	40.30 million	39.65 million	Optionable
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	25,000	57.39 million	38.39 million	Optionable

BJRI, DENN, LOCO, PLAY, and TAST Headlines

Source	Headline
	NY to provide $750,000 to keep Carrols in Syracuse after purchase by Burger King msn.com - May 9 at 6:13 PM
	Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) Hits New 12-Month High at $9.55 marketbeat.com - May 9 at 2:43 PM
	Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) Research Coverage Started at StockNews.com americanbankingnews.com - May 9 at 3:44 AM
	Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) Hits New 52-Week High at $9.54 americanbankingnews.com - May 5 at 2:46 AM
	Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TAST) Has A ROE Of 18% finance.yahoo.com - May 4 at 4:38 PM
	Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) Hits New 1-Year High at $9.54 marketbeat.com - May 3 at 8:53 PM
	StockNews.com Initiates Coverage on Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) americanbankingnews.com - May 1 at 2:14 AM
	Burger King parent Restaurant Brands tops estimates on strong demand msn.com - April 30 at 10:31 PM
	Short Interest in Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TAST) Rises By 28.6% marketbeat.com - April 28 at 1:54 PM
	Semanteon Capital Management LP Acquires New Stake in Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TAST) marketbeat.com - April 26 at 8:47 PM
	Top 2 Consumer Stocks That May Implode In April msn.com - April 22 at 7:49 PM
	Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC Has $2.26 Million Stock Position in Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TAST) marketbeat.com - April 22 at 4:41 AM
	Yum China (NYSE:YUMC): Strongest Q4 Results from the Traditional Fast Food Group finance.yahoo.com - April 12 at 8:01 AM
	Traditional Fast Food Stocks Q3 Recap: Benchmarking Carrols (NASDAQ:TAST) finance.yahoo.com - April 10 at 10:29 AM
	Enjoy a taste of Mississippi's best culinary offerings at this event clarionledger.com - April 4 at 9:36 PM
	Carrols: No Meat Left On This Bone, Sell seekingalpha.com - March 27 at 9:03 PM
	Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST) Flat As Market Sinks: What You Should Know zacks.com - March 22 at 7:21 PM
	CARROLS RESTAURANT GROUP INVESTOR ALERT by the Former Attorney General of Louisiana: Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC Investigates Adequacy of Price and Process in Proposed Sale of Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. - TAST businesswire.com - March 19 at 12:24 PM
	5 Top Stocks to Gain on Signs of Household Spending Resilience zacks.com - March 18 at 9:20 AM
	Kaskela Law LLC MERGER INVESTIGATION: Does $9.55 Per Share Represent Sufficient Cash Out Value for Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TAST) Shares for Investors? businesswire.com - March 16 at 8:00 AM
	Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST) Flat As Market Sinks: What You Should Know zacks.com - March 15 at 7:21 PM
	TAST Stock Earnings: Carrols Restaurant Group Beats EPS, Misses Revenue for Q4 2023 investorplace.com - March 15 at 1:01 PM
	SHAREHOLDER UPDATE: Halper Sadeh LLC Investigates ETRN, SCX, TAST, HES stockhouse.com - March 12 at 2:04 PM
	SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Kaskela Law LLC Announces Investigation of Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (TAST) and Encourages Investors to Contact the Firm stockhouse.com - March 11 at 10:26 AM

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Company Descriptions

BJ's Restaurants

NASDAQ:BJRI

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. 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.

Denny's

NASDAQ:DENN

Denny's Corporation, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates franchised full-service restaurant chains under the Denny's and Keke's Breakfast Cafe brands in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as Advantica Restaurant Group, Inc. and changed its name to Denny's Corporation in July 2002. Denny's Corporation was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

El Pollo Loco

NASDAQ:LOCO

El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, El Pollo Loco, Inc., develops, franchises, licenses, and operates quick-service restaurants under the El Pollo Loco name. It operates and franchises restaurants located in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Utah, and Louisiana. It also licenses its brand to restaurants in the Philippines. The company was formerly known as Chicken Acquisition Corp. and changed its name to El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. in April 2014. El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment

NASDAQ:PLAY

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. owns and operates entertainment and dining venues for adults and families. Its venues offer a menu of entrees and appetizers, as well as a selection of non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages; and an assortment of entertainment attractions centered on playing games and watching live sports, and other televised events. The company operates its venues under the Dave & Buster's name. As of April 02, 2019, it owned and operated 125 venues in 39 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Carrols Restaurant Group

NASDAQ:TAST

Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates restaurants in the United States. It operates quick service restaurants as a franchisee under the Burger King and Popeyes brands in 23 Northeastern, Midwestern, Southcentral, and Southeastern states. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Syracuse, New York.

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