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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	$31.75 -2.4%	$35.13	$21.64 ▼ $38.76	$742.95M	2.12	379,712 shs	305,691 shs
DENN Denny's	$8.13 -1.5%	$9.04	$8.11 ▼ $12.53	$431.70M	1.93	492,073 shs	421,086 shs
HABT Habit Restaurants	$13.98	$13.98	$7.80 ▼ $14.10	$365.05M	0.96	914,092 shs	71,500 shs
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$8.27 -2.2%	$9.01	$8.11 ▼ $11.02	$258.69M	1.41	227,501 shs	294,156 shs
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	$53.82 -0.9%	$61.41	$31.65 ▼ $69.82	$2.17B	2.08	1.16 million shs	1.07 million 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	-0.85%	-5.66%	-7.24%	+6.76%	+17.44%
DENN Denny's	-0.60%	-4.73%	-7.51%	-21.05%	-27.12%
HABT Habit Restaurants	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	-1.74%	-7.64%	-0.82%	-3.75%	-7.03%
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	-0.22%	-13.79%	-13.34%	+10.93%	+57.37%

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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	3.1897 of 5 stars	2.2	1.0	0.0	2.9	1.3	2.5	2.5
DENN Denny's	3.1695 of 5 stars	3.3	4.0	0.0	0.0	1.9	2.5	1.9
HABT Habit Restaurants	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
LOCO El Pollo Loco	1.0752 of 5 stars	0.0	2.0	0.0	1.2	1.6	2.5	2.5
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	4.8001 of 5 stars	4.3	3.0	0.0	0.8	3.6	2.5	3.1

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	2.33	Hold	$37.30	17.48% Upside
DENN Denny's	2.50	Moderate Buy	$11.92	46.58% Upside
HABT Habit Restaurants	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
LOCO El Pollo Loco	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	2.50	Moderate Buy	$69.21	28.60% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings

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

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
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
3/25/2024	PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	Raymond James Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Market Perform
3/6/2024	PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$60.00 ➝ $80.00
2/27/2024	PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$66.00 ➝ $75.00
2/16/2024	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$28.00 ➝ $37.00
2/16/2024	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$40.00
2/16/2024	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	Stephens Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$35.00
2/14/2024	DENN Denny's	Oppenheimer Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$13.00 ➝ $12.00

(Data available from 4/17/2021 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	0.56	$3.79 per share	8.38	$15.77 per share	2.01
DENN Denny's	$463.92M	0.93	$0.88 per share	9.19	($1.18) per share	-6.89
HABT Habit Restaurants	$466.06M	0.78	$1.25 per share	11.19	$5.76 per share	2.43
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$468.66M	0.55	$1.16 per share	7.10	$7.61 per share	1.09
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	$2.21B	0.98	$8.98 per share	5.99	$6.25 per share	8.61

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	$0.83	38.25	20.22	1.91	1.47%	5.45%	1.88%	5/2/2024 (Confirmed)
DENN Denny's	$19.94M	$0.35	23.23	11.14	1.44	4.30%	-70.78%	6.97%	4/30/2024 (Confirmed)
HABT Habit Restaurants	$2.78M	$0.17	87.38	87.38	N/A	0.75%	2.37%	0.79%	N/A
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$25.55M	$0.75	11.03	11.81	N/A	5.45%	9.20%	4.13%	5/2/2024 (Estimated)
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	$126.90M	$2.81	19.15	11.14	N/A	5.76%	53.96%	4.12%	6/4/2024 (Estimated)

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

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/2/2024	N/A	BJRI BJ's Restaurants	$0.14	N/A	-$0.14	N/A	N/A	N/A
4/30/2024	N/A	DENN Denny's	$0.14	N/A	-$0.14	N/A	N/A	N/A
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	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
DENN Denny's	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
HABT Habit Restaurants	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	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	0.19	0.42	0.35
DENN Denny's	N/A	0.43	0.41
HABT Habit Restaurants	1.06	0.70	0.68
LOCO El Pollo Loco	0.34	0.35	0.32
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	5.11	0.32	0.23

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	99.95%
DENN Denny's	85.07%
HABT Habit Restaurants	64.33%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	81.28%
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	91.45%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	4.20%
DENN Denny's	4.20%
HABT Habit Restaurants	15.96%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	17.50%
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	1.60%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
BJRI BJ's Restaurants	21,000	23.40 million	22.42 million	Optionable
DENN Denny's	3,500	53.10 million	50.87 million	Optionable
HABT Habit Restaurants	6,093	26.11 million	N/A	Optionable
LOCO El Pollo Loco	4,362	31.28 million	25.81 million	Optionable
PLAY Dave & Buster's Entertainment	23,258	40.30 million	39.65 million	Optionable

LOCO, BJRI, PLAY, HABT, and DENN Headlines

Source	Headline
	Carlsbad residents want a local Dave and Buster's. See what other businesses made our poll. msn.com - April 17 at 9:13 PM
	Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY) Price Target Increased by 19.55% to 77.52 msn.com - April 17 at 9:13 PM
	Q1 2025 EPS Estimates for Dave & Buster's Entertainment Inc Reduced by Zacks Research (NASDAQ:PLAY) marketbeat.com - April 17 at 5:55 PM
	What to know about Dave & Buster's 10th Florida location in Port St. Lucie msn.com - April 17 at 5:44 AM
	Dave & Buster’s International Cements Its Presence in the APAC Region finance.yahoo.com - April 16 at 12:42 PM
	Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (PLAY) Is a Trending Stock: Facts to Know Before Betting on It zacks.com - April 16 at 10:01 AM
	Dave & Buster's International Cements Its Presence in the APAC Region businesswire.com - April 16 at 9:00 AM
	Traders Purchase High Volume of Put Options on Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) americanbankingnews.com - April 16 at 1:26 AM
	Dave & Buster's Entertainment Sees Unusually High Options Volume (NASDAQ:PLAY) marketbeat.com - April 15 at 3:35 PM
	Dave & Buster's Adds More Than 20 New Food And Drink Items To Menu msn.com - April 15 at 12:25 AM
	Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) Stock Price Down 6.4% americanbankingnews.com - April 14 at 3:46 AM
	Dave & Buster’s launches upgraded food and beverage menu nrn.com - April 13 at 10:32 AM
	Another Analyst Comes Out Against Dave & Busters (NASDAQ:PLAY) msn.com - April 12 at 11:30 PM
	Sneak peek at new Dave & Buster's location at the Shoppes at Montage msn.com - April 12 at 6:29 PM
	Here's Why Investors Should Retain Dave & Buster's (PLAY) Stock zacks.com - April 12 at 1:31 PM
	Dave & Buster’s Moosic location opens Monday theweekender.com - April 12 at 1:28 PM
	Dave & Buster's in Moosic opening on April 15 msn.com - April 12 at 1:28 PM
	Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) Shares Down 6.4% marketbeat.com - April 12 at 12:46 PM
	Raymond James & Associates Has $4.17 Million Stake in Dave & Buster's Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PLAY) marketbeat.com - April 12 at 4:18 AM
	Dave & Buster’s updates menu with at least 20 items restaurantdive.com - April 11 at 3:23 PM
	Dave & Buster's offers an early look inside its new Moosic location standardspeaker.com - April 10 at 3:22 PM
	Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) Stock Rating Upgraded by StockNews.com americanbankingnews.com - April 10 at 2:20 AM
	Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) Raised to Hold at StockNews.com marketbeat.com - April 10 at 2:18 AM
	Michael J. Griffith Sells 5,203 Shares of Dave & Buster's Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PLAY) Stock insidertrades.com - April 6 at 6:18 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.

Habit Restaurants

NASDAQ:HABT

The Habit Restaurants, Inc., a holding company, operates and franchises fast casual restaurants under The Habit Burger Grill name. It specializes in offering made-to-order char-grilled burgers and sandwiches featuring choice tri-tip steak, grilled chicken, and sushi-grade tuna cooked over an open flame; and salads, as well as sides, shakes, and malts. As of February 28, 2019, the company had 250 restaurants in California, Arizona, Utah, New Jersey, Florida, Idaho, Virginia, Nevada, Washington, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, as well as 4 international locations. The Habit Restaurants, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

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.

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