ARKR vs. GENK, MRNO, FLL, STKS, THCH, LVO, CNTY, FAT, FATBB, and NDLS
Should you be buying Ark Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ark Restaurants include GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Murano Global Investments (MRNO), Full House Resorts (FLL), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), TH International (THCH), LiveOne (LVO), Century Casinos (CNTY), FAT Brands (FAT), FAT Brands (FATBB), and Noodles & Company (NDLS). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Ark Restaurants vs. Its Competitors
Ark Restaurants (NASDAQ:ARKR) and GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
GEN Restaurant Group has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 148.14%. Given GEN Restaurant Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than Ark Restaurants.
32.0% of Ark Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.7% of Ark Restaurants shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 59.1% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
GEN Restaurant Group has a net margin of 0.39% compared to Ark Restaurants' net margin of -1.16%. Ark Restaurants' return on equity of 4.22% beat GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity.
Ark Restaurants has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GEN Restaurant Group has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GEN Restaurant Group has higher revenue and earnings than Ark Restaurants. GEN Restaurant Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ark Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, GEN Restaurant Group had 4 more articles in the media than Ark Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group and 1 mentions for Ark Restaurants. Ark Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat GEN Restaurant Group's score of -0.42 indicating that Ark Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ark Restaurants received 247 more outperform votes than GEN Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 88.89% of users gave GEN Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 74.29% of users gave Ark Restaurants an outperform vote.
Summary
GEN Restaurant Group beats Ark Restaurants on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ARKR) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
