Ark Restaurants (NASDAQ:ARKR) Vs. NATH, FRGI, PBPB, BBQ, RRGB, FATBB, FAT, TAST, BFI, and LUB
Should you be buying Ark Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ark Restaurants include Nathan's Famous (NATH), Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), Potbelly (PBPB), BBQ (BBQ), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), FAT Brands (FATBB), FAT Brands (FAT), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), BurgerFi International (BFI), and Luby's (LUB). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Ark Restaurants vs.
Nathan's Famous (NASDAQ:NATH) and Ark Restaurants (NASDAQ:ARKR) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Nathan's Famous has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ark Restaurants has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ark Restaurants received 28 more outperform votes than Nathan's Famous when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.86% of users gave Ark Restaurants an outperform vote while only 61.43% of users gave Nathan's Famous an outperform vote.
Nathan's Famous has a net margin of 12.45% compared to Ark Restaurants' net margin of 10.20%. Ark Restaurants' return on equity of 33.31% beat Nathan's Famous' return on equity.
In the previous week, Nathan's Famous had 2 more articles in the media than Ark Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Nathan's Famous and 4 mentions for Ark Restaurants. Nathan's Famous' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Ark Restaurants' score of 0.29 indicating that Nathan's Famous is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ark Restaurants has higher revenue and earnings than Nathan's Famous. Ark Restaurants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nathan's Famous, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
41.6% of Nathan's Famous shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.3% of Ark Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.4% of Nathan's Famous shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 40.1% of Ark Restaurants shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Ark Restaurants beats Nathan's Famous on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ARKR and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Ark Restaurants (NASDAQ:ARKR) vs. Its Competitors
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