BJRI vs. DIN, CHUY, TAST, DENN, BH, JACK, NATH, CBRL, CAKE, and PZZA
Should you be buying BJ's Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BJ's Restaurants include Dine Brands Global (DIN), Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Denny's (DENN), Biglari (BH), Jack in the Box (JACK), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), and Papa John's International (PZZA). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Dine Brands Global (NYSE:DIN) and BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, profitability, dividends, earnings and media sentiment.
Dine Brands Global currently has a consensus target price of $59.43, suggesting a potential upside of 38.37%. BJ's Restaurants has a consensus target price of $37.30, suggesting a potential upside of 13.86%. Given BJ's Restaurants' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Dine Brands Global is more favorable than BJ's Restaurants.
92.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 100.0% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dine Brands Global has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BJ's Restaurants. Dine Brands Global 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.
In the previous week, Dine Brands Global had 2 more articles in the media than BJ's Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Dine Brands Global and 4 mentions for BJ's Restaurants. Dine Brands Global's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat BJ's Restaurants' score of -0.14 indicating that BJ's Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dine Brands Global has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 2.12, indicating that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dine Brands Global has a net margin of 11.69% compared to Dine Brands Global's net margin of 1.47%. Dine Brands Global's return on equity of 5.45% beat BJ's Restaurants' return on equity.
Dine Brands Global received 120 more outperform votes than BJ's Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.43% of users gave Dine Brands Global an outperform vote while only 54.66% of users gave BJ's Restaurants an outperform vote.
Summary
Dine Brands Global beats BJ's Restaurants on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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