BLMN vs. BJRI, CAKE, CBRL, ARCO, DIN, WEN, PZZA, BH, NATH, and JACK
Should you be buying Bloomin' Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bloomin' Brands include BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Wendy's (WEN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Biglari (BH), Nathan's Famous (NATH), and Janus Henderson Sustainable & Impact Core Bond ETF (JACK). These companies are all part of the "retail - restrnts" industry.
Bloomin' Brands vs. Its Competitors
BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) and Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) 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 risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
100.0% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Bloomin' Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BJ's Restaurants has a net margin of 1.99% compared to Bloomin' Brands' net margin of -0.12%. Bloomin' Brands' return on equity of 44.03% beat BJ's Restaurants' return on equity.
BJ's Restaurants currently has a consensus target price of $39.67, indicating a potential upside of 18.20%. Bloomin' Brands has a consensus target price of $9.88, indicating a potential upside of 34.35%. Given Bloomin' Brands' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bloomin' Brands is more favorable than BJ's Restaurants.
BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloomin' Brands has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BJ's Restaurants has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bloomin' Brands. Bloomin' Brands 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, Bloomin' Brands had 2 more articles in the media than BJ's Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Bloomin' Brands and 7 mentions for BJ's Restaurants. Bloomin' Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat BJ's Restaurants' score of 1.29 indicating that Bloomin' Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
BJ's Restaurants beats Bloomin' Brands on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BLMN) was last updated on 9/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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