BJRI vs. CAKE, WEN, PZZA, CBRL, BLMN, BH, NATH, DIN, JACK, and RICK
Should you be buying BJ's Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BJ's Restaurants include Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Wendy's (WEN), Papa Johns International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Biglari (BH), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Jack in the Box (JACK), and RCI Hospitality (RICK). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
BJ's Restaurants vs.
BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) and Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ:CAKE) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings and risk.
BJ's Restaurants currently has a consensus target price of $37.20, indicating a potential downside of 13.95%. Cheesecake Factory has a consensus target price of $54.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.81%. Given Cheesecake Factory's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cheesecake Factory is more favorable than BJ's Restaurants.
Cheesecake Factory has higher revenue and earnings than BJ's Restaurants. Cheesecake Factory is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BJ's Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cheesecake Factory has a net margin of 4.38% compared to BJ's Restaurants' net margin of 1.23%. Cheesecake Factory's return on equity of 45.89% beat BJ's Restaurants' return on equity.
BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cheesecake Factory has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BJ's Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Cheesecake Factory pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. BJ's Restaurants pays out 55.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cheesecake Factory pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Cheesecake Factory is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Cheesecake Factory had 1 more articles in the media than BJ's Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Cheesecake Factory and 11 mentions for BJ's Restaurants. BJ's Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Cheesecake Factory's score of 0.35 indicating that BJ's Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.9% of BJ's Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Cheesecake Factory shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of BJ's Restaurants shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Cheesecake Factory shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cheesecake Factory received 40 more outperform votes than BJ's Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.35% of users gave BJ's Restaurants an outperform vote while only 51.73% of users gave Cheesecake Factory an outperform vote.
Summary
Cheesecake Factory beats BJ's Restaurants on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BJRI) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
